The grave today
Bygone Companies
The Acciaiuoli Bank
The third of Florence's great 'super-companies', founded 1282, banker to the kings of Naples. It failed in 1343 — not from England's royal defaults, like the Bardi and Peruzzi, but from financing Florence's war against Lucca.
Read the grave →The Wall · ancient to brand-new
One continuous line. 7 of the 430.Ebla
2300 BCE
Akrotiri
1600 BCE
Hurrian
1000 BCE
Corinthian Bronze
146 BCE
Phoenician / Punic
600 CE
The Riccardi of Luc…
1300 CE
Hudson's Bay Company
2025 CE
2300 BCE1219 BCE137 BCE944 CE2025 CE
How they died
Replaced 163
Conquest 160
Overreach 90
Forgotten 87
Assimilation 68
Disaster 45
Only 45 of 430 graves were destroyed outright. The rest were replaced, absorbed, conquered, or simply forgotten — which is the whole argument of this museum.