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Yahoo! News: Undated photo made available by the Italian Culture...

Summary: p Undated photo made available by the Italian Culture Ministry in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007 showing part of a wooden throne dug out between October and November in the ancient southern Italian city of Herculaneum, near Pompeii, one of the Roman cities buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. Decorated with ivory bas-reliefs depicting ancient deities, the wooden remains are the first known example of a Roman throne, archaeologists said Tuesday. /p

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