Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 293
alth. According to another calculation, all the gold now in theworld is supposed to be equal to about $3,410,000,000 ; butthe whole amount of either of the two precious metals in old timesis not easily ascertained, nor can any definite comparison be es-tablished between their former and present… … p<;)^v[f;^yij^ ^TS:N?if^?- The immense number and variety of statues, lamps, urns,articles of domestic use, in metal or earthenware, etc., dis-covered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, have rendered theMuseum at Naples an inexhaustible treasury of informationrelative to the private life of the…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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