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Ancient Marble Statue of Hercules Discovered in Florence, Italy
Archaeologists in Montaione, Florence, Italy, have discovered a rare ancient statue of Hercules, dating back to the 3rd or ...
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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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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
Greek Police Earlier this month ... As Bert Smith, a classical archaeologist at Oxford University, tells the Times, the marble statue was probably made for religious purposes.
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The Parthenon's Many Lives
It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that Turkish soldiers removed 520 blocks of marble from the ...
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2,000-year-old Greek marble statue found discarded in the trash, police say
Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and discarded among garbage bins this week. Police in Thessaloniki, the second ...