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A 20-Centimeter Roman Bone Penis Was Found in the Netherlands

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Archaeological finds have been accumulating in the Dutch province of Gelderland for more than 70 years, and experts have not had the capacity to organize and document the objects. However, 8 million euros were recently allocated to process the huge amount of material stored in 16,000 boxes, and the Valkhof Museum staff entrusted with the task have examined three thousand boxes so far. Most of the objects made 1800-2000 years ago, during the Roma…
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Archaeological finds have been accumulating in the Dutch province of Gelderland for more than 70 years, and experts have not had the capacity to organize and document the objects. However, 8 million euros were recently allocated to process the huge amount of material stored in 16,000 boxes, and the Valkhof Museum staff entrusted with the task have examined three thousand boxes so far. Most of the objects made 1800-2000 years ago, during the Roma…

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The museums don't have all their secrets in their windows. Sometimes thousands of objects remain locked in reserves for decades, for lack of means to inventory them. The Roman phallus in Nijmegen bone, found by chance in a never-open cardboard box, perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. 16,000 boxes accumulated in 70 years in a museum in Nijmegen The Valkhof Museum, located in Nijmegen, Netherlands, preserves in its warehouses about 16,000 boxes…

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