'Roman Lusitania: The origin of two cultures' at The National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
The National Archaeological Museum discovers, for first time in Madrid, the history of Lusitania; the Roman Province created 2000 years ago at the ‘finis terrarum’, the territory today occupied by Portugal, Estremadura and the western part of Andalusia.
Its capital, Augusta Emerita, was transformed into the most important settlement in the Western Façade of the Roman Empire and the first effective capital of the Iberian Peninsula after the administrative reform of Diocletian.
|Reconstruction of Augusta Emerita [Credit: MAN]|
|Roman bridge at Alcántara [Credit: MAN]|
|Bust of the Roman empereror Galienus [Credit: MAN]|
|Funerary objects dating to the 1st century AD [Credit: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano – Mérida]|
|Sarcophagus of the Seasons, 3rd centry AD [Credit: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis – Porto]|
The exhibition will run until 16th October, 2016.
Source: Museo Arqueológico Nacional [July 10, 2016]