Hercules Head Discovered In Ancient Roman Shipwreck
The ship carrying the mysterious Antikythera mechanism is thought to have sunk in the Aegean Sea over 2,000 years ago during the Roman era. It was found by sponge divers in 1900 off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera. Underwater archeologists have been exploring the site ever since. The bearded statue head bears a strong resemblance to how Hercules was depicted in another statue, the Farnese Hercules. This led the archeologists to suggest that this “Hercules of Antikythera” head “probably” belongs to a headless statue currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, which was excavated in 1900 by the original discoverers of the wreck....