The Mystery of the Ancient Greek Statues Found in Italy

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The Mystery of the Ancient Greek Statues Found in Italy

The Riace Bronzes, displayed in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have remained a mystery since their discovery. Credit: Alexander van Loon/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains, more than half a century after the day they were recovered off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria in August of 1972. To this day, archaeologists and other scientist…