• Rare Wooden Hercules Found After Centuries Under Ibiza’s Waters

    Rare Wooden Hercules Found After Centuries Under Ibiza’s Waters

    For centuries, it lay silent beneath Ibiza’s shifting groundwater — a small wooden Hercules sealed away from air and time.Now, archaeologists have brought the ancient figure back to light: a 30-centimeter Greco-Roman–style statue, carved in wood and astonishingly preserved by the island’s subterranean waters. The discovery was made during preventive excavations on the corner of…