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Author & Timestamp: Sonja Anderson April 3, 2024

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The marble statue likely depicts the Greek god Apollo and decorated a fountain in Philippi.  Greek Ministry of Education In the ancient Greek city of Philippi, researchers have discovered the head of a god: [...] they have identified the marble face as the mythological Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto.

Students and faculty from Greece’s Aristotle University of Thessaloniki unearthed the statue in 2023, according to a Google-translated statement from the Greek Ministry of Culture. As Anastasios Tantsis, an archaeologist at the university, tells All That’s Interesting’s Kaleena Fraga, “The moment of the discovery was thrilling.”

“[The students] were really enthusiastic,” he adds.” We believe that even though these are moments of special importance for us too, sharing them with our students adds to the thrill.”

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Today, the city is still rich with archaeological treasures. In 2022, fragments of a statue of Hercules were unearthed at the site. This statue, which may have once held a club and lion’s head, dates to around the second century—just like the newly discovered marble Apollo. Researchers think both artifacts once adorned the fountain.

However, the Apollo and Hercules sculptures are both much older than the fountain, which “took its final form during the eighth to ninth centuries,” writes the culture ministry. So why did the fountain’s creators, who would have been medieval Christians, incorporate Greek deities into their design?

Perhaps Hercules’ heroic story—in which he chooses virtue over vice—could have been reworked for a Christian audience, as Tantsis tells All That’s Interesting. Still, even if this were the case, “there is no such evidence for Apollo,” who was worshiped for his powers of light, music and prophecy, among other things.

Unlike the previously discovered Hercules statue, only the head of this Apollo statue has been found.  Greek Ministry of Education

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The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Erik Hawkins https://allthatsinteresting.com/demon-core December 10, 2022 Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both suffered agonizing deaths after making minor slips of the hand while working on the plutonium orb known as the “demon core” at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. To survivors of the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War…

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Which presidents were vice presidents?

Which presidents were vice presidents?

Veep 2020

Written by Kaleena Fraga at History First

Joe Biden is back in the news this week, raising two questions. One, will he run in 2020? Two, if he had run in 2016, would he have won?

Vice presidents have had mixed luck in seeking the office themselves. If Biden had run in 2016 and won, he would have joined a somewhat exclusive club of men who were elected president directly…

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The Hidden History Of The Abraham Lincoln Assassination

The Hidden History Of The Abraham Lincoln Assassination

My Weekend Special:

  By Kaleena Fraga Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come.

On April 14, 1865, a man crept up the back staircase of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. with a gun in his hand. Soon, it would take that gunman, John…

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The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Erik Hawkins https://allthatsinteresting.com/demon-core December 10, 2022 Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both suffered agonizing deaths after making minor slips of the hand while working on the plutonium orb known as the “demon core” at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. To survivors of the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War…