(FOX NEWS) – A rare, 2,500-year-old marble statue has emerged
from the ruins of Sardis, an ancient city immortalized in the
Holy Bibles Book of Revelation.

The discovery dates to the fifth century B.C. and was announced
by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism earlier in August.

Sardis is located in the Salihli district of Manisa, about 45 miles
east of the major Turkish city of İzmir.

Pictures show excavators carefully uncovering the monumental
statue, which still retained well-preserved facial features, at the archaeological site.

In a translated statement, officials described the statue as having
"larger-than-life dimensions [that] make it a rare example from
the period."

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened on
a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New
York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise
funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near
the town of Woodstock, New York.

Despite their relative inexperience, the promoters managed to
sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the
Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin,
Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more.

Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed by
Francis Ford Coppola, opened in theaters around the United
States on August 15, 1979.

The film, inspired in part by Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella
Heart of Darkness, among other sources, told the story of an
Army captain (played by Martin Sheen) and crew of men who
are sent into the Cambodian jungle to kill a U.S. Special Forces
colonel (Marlon Brando) who has gone AWOL and is thought to
be crazy.

Apocalypse Now, which co-starred Robert Duvall and Dennis
Hopper, became notorious for its long, difficult production,
which included budget problems, shooting delays due to bad
weather on the Philippines set, a heart attack for Sheen and
a nervous breakdown for Coppola.

Despite the production hurdles, the film became a commercial
success and won two Academy Awards (Best Cinematography
and Best Sound); it received six other Oscar nominations,
including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Supporting
Actor (Duvall).