The headless Heracles of Antikythera may no longer be headless. After a search that lasted more than a century, it is believed that the missing part of a famous exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens was discovered in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean.
The seven-foot statue of Heracles, leaning on his staff after performing one of his mythical 12 works, was discovered by locals diving for mushrooms off the coast of the island of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, in 1900.
Since then, attempts to find Heracles’ head have failed. However, a new underwater excavation of the shipwreck, in which the statue was found, managed to remove a pile of rocks from the seabed, revealing more treasures below.
The headless statue of Heracles was discovered in 1900
Among them was inlaid brandy
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