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Saw this article today on Yahoo: Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue How cool would it be to drag something like this up from the bottom of the sea? It is literally holding a pice of history in your hands. I would love to know the story of this piece but we will probably never know who made it or how it ended up on the seafloor.
That is amazing. Looks like it was only part of the statue that they “caught”…I wonder if the rest is still on the sea floor. The thing about these kinds of things is that even one such statue could shed a lot of new light on how we view the Greeks. I would love to go scuba diving in Greece some day as I hear there are quite a few artifacts underwater there. Sadly, many of them are being looted.
I read the story and had visions of dredging up a lost treasure while vacationing in Greece and being richly rewarded by the Greek government. My idea of an archaeologist is Indy.
