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Archaeologists Stumbled Upon the Missing Head of a 2,000-Year-Old Zeus Statue
the statue head was found 164 feet from the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which itself was built in 3 B.C. Experts estimate that the statue of Zeus was built around the same time ...
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Archaeologists unearth 1,700-year-old statue of Greek god's messenger
Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city of Aspendos, 25 miles east of Antalya on the Turkish coast, have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient ...
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The Buried God
As the statue is cleaned, Bettany reveals how the sophisticated carving on Zeus's beard and head was produced by an expensive technique called drilling, and the traces of pigment in his hair and ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs26d
Roman-era Hermes statue with ram companion found in ancient Aspendos fountain
The marble statue depicts Hermes, known in Greek mythology as the messenger of Zeus and the fastest of the ... there is a figure of a ram with its head turned towards him. Including its pedestal ...
Anadolu Ajansi27d
Statue of Hermes, messenger of Zeus discovered in Turkish coastal resort city of Antalya
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Monday the discovery of a marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus—the pantheon's chief deity or a sky and weather god in Greek ...