A reassembled, 26-foot-tall statue of the mythological Titan Atlas will soon stand guard over the Temple of Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily. ... when the project was first announced, ...

The statue, created in the fifth century B.C.E., was one of roughly 38 similar Atlas monuments built into the temple. They stood in a line between columns with their arms raised, appearing to hold ...

Atlas holding the world, illustration by Calderón de la Barca (1653). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Diodorus Siculus claimed that Atlas was a legendary king of Mauretania, a mathematician, ...

A reconstituted Atlas statue, or telamon, from the Valley of Temples greets the museum’s visitors. Fragments of eight telamons will be assembled into a colossal sculpture to commemorate the ...