Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome brings together nearly 200 of the finest and most significant artifacts preserved in museums today--many of which could never be seen side by side--which serve to illustrate the social and cultural history of ancient Rome. These objects tell the story of the origin of the Roman state (Latium) from the Early Iron Age cultures of Etruria and the pseudo-historical "period of the kings" (753-509 BCE), through to the end...