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Ara Pacis museum in Rome, Italy #155044755
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The Altar of Augustan Peace, commonly shortened to Ara Pacis in the new museum complex for the Ara Pacis in Rome Italy. The complex was designed by the architect Richard Meier and opened to the public on April 21, 2006. The Ara Pacis of Augustus is an altar dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace. Inaugurated on January 30, 9 B.C. with the end of the Roman Empire it became gradually buried under 4 meters 13 ft of silt deposits. It was reassembled in its current location, now the Museum of the Ara Pacis, in 1938
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