The Museum of the Early Middle Ages is located in the Palazzo delle Scienze all'Eur and is part of the Museum of Civilizations. The Museum was created with the aim of providing Rome with an archaeological museum of the post-classical age and of promoting research on a strategic period for the study of the transformation of the ancient world. The collections contain many works of late ancient Rome (IV-VI century), of the Lombard occupation in Umbria and the Marche (VI-VII century) to which weapons, jewels, ivories, glass and bronze and ceramic pottery date back. The subsequent Carolingian age is also illustrated by a conspicuous group of marble reliefs from the architectural decoration of the churches of Rome and Lazio, deeply renovated at the time of the Carolingian Renaissance (IX-X century). The furnishings and objects of use from two agricultural companies of papal foundation belong to the same period, the domuscults of S. Cornelia and S. Rufina, created in the Roman countryside to supply the city (end of the 8th-10th century. ) and continued with other functions up to the middle of the Middle Ages. The itinerary continues with the “Coptic” collection consisting of reliefs and fabrics that offer a significant example of the artistic production of late ancient and early medieval Egypt (VX century). The tour ends with a section dedicated to the integral reconstruction of the extraordinary inlaid decoration of colored marble (opus sectile) that adorned a room of the monumental domus outside Porta Marina in Ostia Antica dating back to the end of the 4th century AD. opus sectile late antiquity almost completely recovered.