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Roman statues found under Aegean Sea

The Roman-era sculptures were located 8ft under water in a submerged port at Mandraki, on the western side of Kythnos, a Greek island in the Cyclades. Greece's culture ministry said the statues consisted of a stone torso of a man in armour as well as another figure - the bearded head of another man. In a statement, the ministry said it did not yet know whether the torso and the head were both taken from the same figure, but that the torso stood 4.5ft high. It is not clear who the statues represented.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)