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A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle

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The answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.

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A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle

The answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.

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The Epheb of Anticythera, the Greek Statue that Still Looks at Something that Disappeared 2,000 Years Ago

It is 1,96 meters high, almost two thousand three hundred years old and a detail that makes it special among the bronze sculptures that are preserved from the Greek Antiquity, along with the Auriga of Delphi and the bronzes of Riace: like them the Ephebo of Anticythera preserves his eyes, made of vitreous paste, [...]

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Popular Mechanics broke the news on Monday, July 27, 2026.
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