The team thinks the statue depicts the Olympian deity Hermes, considered the herald of the gods. Excavators came upon the statue on July 3 at the site of Heraclea Sintica, an ancient city in ...
Archeologists unearthed a treasure from antiquity during an excavation of Heraclea Sintica, a city in Bulgaria, this week. The statue of the messenger God Hermes was an unexpected finding.
In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright ... head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump ...