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Graeme Murray

Lost 'face of Hercules' found in mystery shipwreck after 2,000 years underwater

The lost 'face of Hercules' has been found in a mystery shipwreck after 2,000 years.

A nine-foot statue of the demigod sank beneath the waves near the Greek island of Antikythera at some point in the first century BC.

Made for a “very rich” Roman, the statue remained submerged until 1900, when the wreck was discovered and the sculpture – missing its head – was raised.

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