The museum’s Palaeontology and Geology Exhibit provides visitors with the opportunity of understanding Capri’s origins and to observe the fossil organisms which can be found in the island’s rocks, the most ancient of which date back to some 190 million years ago. The oldest archaeological finds, which bear witness to the presence of land vertebrates thought to have been on the island approximately 300,000 years ago, are exhibited in the central glass cases. This is a large assortment of large mammals known under the name of “fauna del Quisisana” because they were found, purely by chance, in 1905 during construction work to enlarge the well-known hotel.
The museum’s Palaeontology and Geology Exhibit provides visitors with the opportunity of understanding Capri’s origins and to observe the fossil organisms which can be found in the island’s rocks, the most ancient of which date back to some 190 million years ago. The oldest archaeological finds, which bear witness to the presence of land vertebrates thought to have been on the island approximately 300,000 years ago, are exhibited in the central glass cases. This is a large assortment of...
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