The full-size bronzes of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460-420 BC, were found in the sea near the coastal Calabrian town of Riace in 1972. They emerged from conservation in 1981, when their ...

Only two other shipwrecks from the late Bronze Age have ever been found in the Mediterranean Sea, and both of them were discovered close to the coast. This is the first that has ever been ...

previously only famous for the two male bronzes that were fished out of the sea in 1972 and are celebrated as supreme achievements in Greek art as the Riace Bronzes. "For decades emigration ...