A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used large lava stone mills (or “querns”) turned by mules or donkeys. Then there ...

The statue was found in the city’s sewage system. Heraclea Sintica, also known as Heraclea Strymonike, was established in the 4th century B.C. by colonists from the ancient kingdom of Macedon.

This would not be the first ancient statue to emerge from an unsavory trench: Construction workers in Rome also found a marble figure in a sewer system last year.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have accidentally stumbled across a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in what seems like the most unlikely of places: an sewer in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica.

The unexpected find happened during excavation of an ancient Roman sewer in the abandoned city of Heraclea Sintica, which was founded by King Philip II of Macedon between 356 and 339 B.C.E.

BO, rotting corpses and raw sewage for starters ... Thomas J. Derrick. Sun, July 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM UTC. ... Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now.

The unexpected find happened during excavation of an ancient Roman sewer in the abandoned city of Heraclea Sintica, which was founded by King Philip II of Macedon between 356 and 339 B.C.E.

Archaeologists Dig Up Marble God Statue in Ancient Roman Sewer. Not where you'd expect to find it. Author: Chris Malone Méndez. Jul 7, 2024 11:00 AM EDT.

Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer — a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the ...