 In 1510 the city council of Sarzana made a gift to the French governor at Genoa of a marble triton found at Luni.Luni was excavated in the 1970s and many of the material brought to light is now housed in the adjacent museum ().Archeological evidence suggests that the Roman forum had been abandoned as a public space by the end of the sixth century CE, its buildings fell to ruin or were demolished and decorative marbles removed.