A 1,700-year-old marble statue of Hercules has been unearthed at the mediaeval site of Montaione in Tuscany. Discovered by an archaeology student, this rare artifact is notable for its detailed ...

Archaeologists discovered a 1,700-year-old 20-inch statue of Hercules in Florence, Italy. A student with a pickaxe discovered the miniature marble statue in three fragments. The fragments all fit ...

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Vatican Restorers Are Working to Bring a Colossal Roman Sculpture of Hercules Back to Its Golden Glory The conservation work, funded by the Patrons of the Vatican Museums, will cost around $113,588.

Vatican Museum restorer Alice Baltera works on restoring the bronze Hercules statue, in the Round Hall of the Vatican Museums, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Work will continue until December to reveal ...

The statue has been variously dated from the end of the first to the beginning of the third centuries — and a lightning strike helped ensure its preservation.

But it was only after removing a layer of wax and other material from a 19th-century restoration that Vatican experts understood the statue's true splendor as one of the most significant gilded ...

The 13-foot-tall (four-meter-tall) figure of the half-human Roman god has stood in the same niche for more than 150 years.

The inscription FCS accompanying the statue on a slab of travertine marble indicates it was struck by lightning, according to Claudia Valeri, curator of the Vatican Museums department of Greek and ...