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 415.Akkadian Empire
2154 BCE
Akrotiri
1600 BCE
Teshub
700 BCE
Seleucid Empire
63 BCE
Sasanian Empire
651 CE
The Acciaiuoli Bank
1343 CE
Hudson's Bay Company
2025 CE
2154 BCE1109 BCE64 BCE980 CE2025 CE
How they died
Conquest 156
Replaced 154
Overreach 89
Forgotten 84
Assimilation 64
Disaster 44
Only 44 of 415 graves were destroyed outright. The rest were replaced, absorbed, conquered, or simply forgotten — which is the whole argument of this museum.