Professor Serdar Aybek, who is leading the excavations, said that the bronze fragments of the statues were found in the corner of the room, in a dump, where the parts were disassembled for melting.

Police have launched an investigation to determine who dumped the statue and for what purpose, local authorities say. Accidental archaeological discoveries are quite common in Greece, researchers say.

A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A local resident stumbled upon the 31-inch statue next to a bin in Neoi ...

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A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the ...

Police stated that the man “allegedly found [the statue] inside a black bag near garbage cans.” The white marble sculpture, which is missing its head and arms, depicts a woman's torso draped ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday.

Greek authorities said the statue is from the Hellenistic period Greek Police A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80 ...

A 32-year-old man in Thessaloniki found a headless marble statue inside a black bag near garbage bins and promptly reported it to the police. The statue measures approximately 80 centimeters tall ...

including one statue still with an inscription honoring “Metropolitan Apollonios,” were bronze plates commonly found when casting or fixing bronze statues. Aybek believes the plates are ...

Mixed in with the actual fragments of statues, including one statue still with an inscription honoring “Metropolitan Apollonios,” were bronze plates commonly found when casting or fixing bronze ...