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2,000-year-old headless statue found in Greece near trash cans, police now investigating

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

Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for the wear, lacking a head and arms.

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2,000-year-old Greek marble statue found discarded in the trash, police say

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

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An Ancient Headless Statue Is Found Amid Trash in Greece

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,

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Ancient Statue Found Dumped 'Near Dustbins': Greek Police

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near dustbins in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

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Greece bans windowless basements, freezes central Athens licenses in overhaul of short-term rentals

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawmakers in Greece began debating proposed legislation on Friday to toughen rules for short-term ...

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100 Years of Athens College: The history, the exemplary Alumni and the “black sheep”

Prime ministers, MPs and bankers, professors, intellectuals and artists, top-tier entrepreneurs, shipowners, as well as ...

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Athens and Shanghai Become Sister Cities

On Thursday the mayors of Athens and Shanghai signed an agreement for the twinning of the two cities, signaling closer ...

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Exploring the World’s Last Abandoned Airport in Athens

Watch this adventurer explore the last abandoned airport in the world and even manage to clamber up into an old aeroplane. It's estimated that nearly twenty-three million passengers travelled through ...

A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece

Police in Greece say a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old has been found abandoned in a ...

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Greece sees an outcry after police release a drunk driver later involved in a deadly crash

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s minister in charge of police said Monday that “all necessary sanctions” will be brought against officers on the island of Crete who failed to detain a driver found ...

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Greece Elects Nikitas Kaklamanis as President of Parliament

Greece's Parliament elected the New Democracy MP for Athens Nikitas Kaklamanis as the new president of the chamber on ...

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EU's migration commissioner in Athens for talks on migration pact, returns policy

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union’s new commissioner for migration and internal affairs, Magnus Brunner, was in Athens ...

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Italian news agency reports intensified contacts for Parthenon sculptures' return to Greece

"The whole international discussion about the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece has resumed, thanks also to Italy" ...

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