Best Photos of the Day

Meticulously researched sketches of the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, for mural depictions of the garden that will go in the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

Knife handles and other decorative fragments of items from the era of the Roman emperor Caligula’s rule at the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

Depictions of the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, by Simone Boni of Ink Link at the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

A restored original module of a frescoed wall from the age of Caligula and Claudius, right, and, at left, a reconstructive drawing of the stages of the process to recreate the fresco, at the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

Claudio Borgugnoni, center, returns a vase to a container on the walls of the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

Animal bones in one of the hallway containers at the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

A pipe of the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, engraved with the words, ”Water system built by Emperor Caligula,” in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

Outside the Enpam building where the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, was discovered in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

An excavated staircase dating to the Julio-Claudian era, already built by Caligula’s reign, in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.

A theatrical mask in marble dust, recovered from the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, at the Nymphaeum Musem in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. (Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.