Well-Preserved Marble Statue of Hermes was Unearthed in Bulgaria

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  3. Now that must be some rock-hard butt cheeks…

  5. 2M high and incredibly well preserved. The pictures are rotated, the statue is actually lying on it’s side on the ground of the roman sewer (Cloaca Maxima). Apparently the people of the town had hidden their old deity’s after Christianity was adopted as the official Roman religion and all pagan worship was forbidden. The reason it’s so well preserved is they hid the statue and berried it in the soil to protect it. Sadly the town suffered an earthquake shortly before that and never recovered. The statue is made from a single marble block, but is a recreation of another original, still it is a unique find for Bulgaria.

    This would be a great addition to any historical museum in the country. Amazing find, but I have doubts that it will land in a wealthy collector’s mansion and never seen again by the public.

  7. How do they know the top of the head isn’t a rock and just keep smashing it with shovels/exacavator

  9. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a well-preserved statue in the middle of *every* rock?

  11. Very cool, but why does reddit not allow statues, which are usually public, to be posted without NSFW?

    There’s a statue outside one of my company’s offices where there’s a statue that is fully naked and so far I have still been safe at work

  15. he did something naughty and his teacher put him in the corner

  16. I sometimes think about how many more such statues and various artefacts from the antiquity lay buried. And how many of them we will unearth and how many shall remain buried forever until they crumble to dust.

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