Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa

Trove had been preserved by warm waters and mud at the Tuscan springs near Siena

Bronze snakes, statues, two gold crowns, jewellery, thousands of coins and perfectly intact eggs are among the latest remarkable discoveries to emerge from the site of an ancient thermal spa in a small town in Tuscany.

The trove had been preserved by the warm waters and mud at the springs, believed to have been built by the Etruscans in the second century BC, in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town close to Siena.

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