An amazing sculpture inside St. Peter's

Vatican City

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June 6th 2008
Friday, June 6- Vatican City It was up and at it bring and early this morning! We were at Vatican City by 9:45 after a bus and Metro ride. Our first stop was the Vatican Museum. The first part of the museum took us through the Vatican’s Egyptian collections. We saw many sarcophaguses, mummies, cuneiform tablets and other Egyptian sculptures. After the Egyptian collections, we moved on to the ha ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more