When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag in a trash can, he was probably relieved it was made of marble. It turns out the ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than ... illegal trafficking of ancient artifacts. A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in a black bag in the college town ...

the Greek Police said that a 32-year-old man went to the Thermaikos Crime Investigation and Prosecution Department on Saturday, Jan. 18, and handed over a bag containing the statue. The Greek ...

Police opened an investigation to determine who discarded the statue and briefly detained a man for questioning who ... thousands of artifacts spanning the Greek, Byzantine and Ottoman periods ...

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan ... according to the History Channel. The man who found the statue took it to authorities in Thessaloniki. It was then was examined by an ...

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 ...

According to a release from the Greek police, an unnamed 32-year-old man told police he found a black bag near a group of trash cans that contained a headless and limbless statue. Assuming the ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing ...