Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans
Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for the wear, lacking a head and arms.
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A Man Found a Mysterious Statue in a Trash Bag on the Street. It Turned Out to Be a 2,000-Year-Old Greek Artifact
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 ...
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Apoxyomenos: The Ancient Greek Masterpiece Salvaged from the Sea
The ancient Greek statue of Apoxyomenos is an ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping dust from his body ...
Man discovers a 2,000-year-old Greek treasure in a street trash bag: “It likely wasn’t the temple’s main statue”
Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and ...
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A Headless Ancient Sculpture Just Turned Up in the Trash in Greece
A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.
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2,000-Year-Old Greek Statue Found Abandoned in a Bag Near Trash Cans: Police
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 ...
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Man finds 2,000-year-old statue in bag next to trash cans
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 ...
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2,000-year-old Greek statue found abandoned in garbage bag
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 ...
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Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans
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 ...