Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for wear — no head and no arms.

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 ...

When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag in a trash can, he was probably relieved it was made of marble. It turns out the ...

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 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 ...

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 city of Thessaloniki.

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

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 ...

An unnamed 32-year-old man found the bag containing the headless, limbless statue and brought it to police ... 320 and 30 B.C., was protected under Greek law, and the piece was seized by police ...