Long after his heyday as the head god of ancient Greece, Zeus has thrown a curveball rather than a lightning bolt at scientists. New excavations of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Greece’s Mount Lykaion indicate that religious activity occurred there as early as 5,000 years ago, at least a millennium before the Greeks began to worship Zeus.
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