Marble Sculpture Found In A Shipwreck Is Considered To Be The Lost Head Of Hercules Of Antikythera World

The seven-foot statue of Hercules leaning on his bat after one of his mythical 12 feats was discovered by locals diving for sponges off the island of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, in 1900. Since then, attempts to find Hercules’s head have failed. However, a new underwater excavation of the wreck in which the statue was found managed to remove a cluster of rocks from the seabed, revealing more treasures below. The headless statue of Hercules was discovered in 1900 Among them was a decorated barrel