The Riace bronzes and the “brothers” still at the bottom of the sea: what happened

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The Riace bronzes and the "brothers" still at the bottom of the sea: what happened

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Fifty-three years of mysteries, omissions and half-truths could be swept away by the waves of the Sicilian sea. The Riace Bronzes, the most famous warriors in the history of art, may not be “Calabrian” at all. The turning point, the real one, is about to come to the surface thanks to a new underwater research campaign promoted by the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage in the seabed of the Brucoli shoal, two miles from Punta Tonnara, in the Syracuse area. The goal? Finding definitive evidence of what experts call “the Sicilian hypothesis”.

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