The laurel is evaluated as a priceless work due to its historical and archaeological significance, believed to have been worn by kings from the 1st and 3rd centuries BCE.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

A statue dating more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

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

An approximately 3,500-year-old settlement was discovered in Egypt in Kom el-Negus, located about 27 miles west of Alexandria ...

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...

Police in Greece are investigating the discovery of a 2,000-year-old statue in a black bag near some trash cans in a suburban ...

Greek authorities investigating the statue's mysterious appearance say it dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C.

Police said experts, following an initial evaluation, determined the piece dates to the Hellenistic era, a period roughly ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...