Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

The police said a man handed over a statue ... Greek crime, trafficking, antiquities and heritage protection units into its origins and how it could have wound up in the garbage. The discovery of ...

An ancient marble statue ... it in to police on Saturday evening, Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period ...

Historians have argued that similar helmets were worn by ancient warriors of many Greek city-states. The artifact going to auction is “a rare and exceptionally well-preserved bronze Greek helmet ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

An archaeologist determined that the statue, which dates to the Hellenistic period between 320 and 30 B.C., was protected under Greek law, and the piece was seized by police specializing in ...

Thessaloniki: Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near dustbins in the northern city of Thessaloniki.