Archaeologists near Bulgaria’s southeastern border with Greece uncovered a nearly 7-foot statue ... god Hermes during a dig this week. The unexpected find happened during excavation of an ...

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Scientists were digging at an excavation site in the village of Rupite close to the border with Greece when they discovered a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in an ancient Roman sewer.

The archaeologists say the statue matches others that depict Hermes, but very few similar statues are preserved in the world and many are missing their heads. During the Roman Empire, Christianity ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a marble statue that may depict Hermes, the Greek messenger god. It was found in ... Christianity had recently become the Roman Empire’s official ...

The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue ... s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally ...

A life-sized statue ... god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided as a symbolic payment to Charon, the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx according to ancient Roman ...

The statue was constructed in the image of Rhodes’s patron deity, the sun god Helios. Standing a towering ... clasp the thumb in their arms,” the Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder ...

Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer — a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of ...