The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century ...

Check out the cover art for Medusa below ... In Greek mythology, Medusa is one of the Gorgons — a trio of sisters with the ability to turn onlookers to stone. She was famously beheaded by ...

The mask mold, found in a building believed to have been used as a mask workshop, depicts Medusa with a stern face surrounded by wild, thick strands of hair.

So it is that Perseus finds himself agreeing to find and defeat the Gorgon - a monster called Medusa - a task that Polydectes believes to be impossible, since the Oracle has also prophesied that ...