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

Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient ... of Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis. Thessaloniki weeks ago unveiled a trove of antiquities found during the decades ...

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 plastic bag among trash bins near the northern city of Thessaloniki. It was a headless, armless statue depicting a female form in a flowing, draped garment.

The Greek police's Organized Crime Unit opened a preliminary investigation into how the statue came to be dumped.

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy.

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The tangle of the case began to unravel when the 50-year-old arrested appeared in a hairdresser and after introducing himself as an employee of the DEDDIE, he told a worker that he would proceed to cut off the electricity supply,

An ancient statue dating to the Hellenistic era was found in a black bag next to garbage bins in Greece's northern city of Thessaloniki.

A 2,000-year-old marble statue was found in a garbage bag near Thessaloniki in Greece. Discovered by a resident, the headless statue dates to the Hellenistic era and is now under examination by archaeologists before being preserved by local authorities.

A headless marble statue, believed to be over 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. Dating to the Hellenist

A man found the headless statue of a woman just outside Greece's second biggest city before handing it over to local authorities. | ITV National News