THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police said Wednesday that 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.

The latest find is an ancient marble statue discovered in, of all places, a black trash bag. After an initial evaluation, experts dated the statue to the Hellenistic era between 320 and 30 B.C.E ...

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Near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, a local resident discovered a small marble statue of a woman that had been left in a garbage bag near a trash bin. Unsure of what the statue was or why it had ...

Allow no one to touch them, for the oil on the skin will discolor the marble. In cleaning ... The light should fall on a statue or bust from such a height as to leave a hair's breadth between ...

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Adding to the celebratory atmosphere, Aamir Khan visited the Statue of Unity in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, where he lauded PM Narendra Modi’s vision in creating the world’s tallest statue. Speaking at a ...

The Veera Abhaya Anjaneya Hanuman Swami statue in Paritala town near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh is the world's tallest Hanuman temple. It is 135 feet (41 meters) high and was built in 2003. On ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are entombed Eli Wizevich History Correspondent The marble head dates to ...

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 ...

Few, if any, industries in the world have a greater percentage of waste than marble quarrying as it is done in Italy, yet the famous Carrara deposits have been worked over 2,000 years, and ...

Marble has been a symbol of wealth and power since 700 BC. It is particularly suitable for sculptures, or the construction and furnishing of stately buildings. But what makes marble so popular?