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2,000-Year-Old Headless Statue Found Abandoned In A Garbage Bag Near The Greek City Of Thessaloniki
It is made of marble and seems to depict a woman ... Greek workers preparing to lay gas pipes unearthed a statue of the Greek messenger god Hermes, just south of the Acropolis in Athens.
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2,000-year-old Greek marble statue found discarded in the trash, police say
Police in Thessaloniki, the second-largest Greek city after Athens, said a 32-year-old man handed the statue over to authorities after allegedly finding it Saturday evening. The white marble ...
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2,000-year-old headless statue found in Greece near trash cans, police now investigating
The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.
2,000-year-old statue found dumped near garbage cans in Greece
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...
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Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans
An ancient marble statue of a woman ... to police on Saturday evening, Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic ...