Stone stele depicts the battle of blood between the son of Hercules and the monster

Archaeologists discovered marble beer with a nude warrior fighting with a soap monster in the village near the Akcay River, Turkey.

According to Live Science, this stele may have been in the second century, when the Roman Empire ruled this region.The Akcay River was then named Harpasos . The warrior on the stele is a semi-naked young man wearing a helmet, his right hand holding a dagger, his left hand holding a round shield.

"In the right corner is the winding serpent (Hydra)," quoted the report in Epigraphica Anatolica in late December 2015 by Hasan Malay, Ege university professor (Turkey) and Funda Ertugrul - archaeologist. Study at Aydin Museum announced.

Stone beer discovered in Turkey.(Photo: Live Science).

In Greek mythology, the god Hercules fought the snake Hydra in a swamp in the Lerna region of Greece. After Hercules kills the monster, the swamp draws water and the people can cultivate there.

However, the researchers believe that the warrior in that battle was not Hercules , but Bargasos - his son and a woman named Barge. In Turkey also has an old town named Bargasas in honor of Hercules's son.

"Harpasos Valley is a sandy area with many branches forming Harpasos River - probably Lerna in mythology , " Malay wrote. In Greek mythology, this battle may have created the god Harpasos river. Locally, the legendary story of Bargasos's battle with the river of fierce branches was handed down. After Bargasos defeated the monster, the river became peaceful (becoming the god of Harpasos).

Illustrating the battle between Hercules and monsters.(Photo: Pinit).

"According to the dream order, Flavius ​​Ouliades made this beer to worship the Harpasos river" - the line of Greek words engraved at the top of the inscription. The beer is 0.61 meters high, 0.45 meters wide, and is preserved at the Aydin museum in Turkey.

This finding shows that Flavius ​​Ouliades - who made a church beer, strongly believed in the river god.

"Ouliades may have sworn to set up a church if the river god responded to the plea of" bumper crops or protect the people from flood and disease, " Malay said.