Earlier this month, a 32-year-old Greek man brought something remarkable to his local police station: a statue of a woman draped in flowing cloth, missing its arms and head. He’d found it encased in a ...

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 ...

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

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 ...

The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins. By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with ...

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.

Greek Police Earlier this month, a 32-year-old Greek man brought something remarkable to his local police station: a statue of a woman draped in flowing cloth, missing its arms and head.