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Man Finds 2,000-Year-Old Decapitated Greek Statue in Trash Can
When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag ... It turns out the statue is likely to be more than 2,000 years old, local ...
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A Man Found a Mysterious Statue in a Trash Bag on the Street. It Turned Out to Be a 2,000-Year-Old Greek Artifact
According to a statement from the Greek police, they determined that the statue dates back to Greece ... and the female body, as seen in Aphrodite of Knidos. As Estelle Strazdins, a classicist ...
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Archaeologists Stumble Upon Marble Statue of Greek God in Ancient Sewer
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a marble statue that may depict Hermes, the Greek messenger god ... the team carefully uncovered the rest of its body. “We found it by accident ...
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Poseidon vs. Chaac: Mexico 'cancels' statue of Greek god after complaint from Maya Indigenous groups
"Poseidon is a Greek god who is alien to our ... Defenders of the statue — which strikingly shows Poseidon's body rising mightily from a relatively calm, open stretch of water near the beach ...
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Mexico ‘cancels’ statue of Greek god Poseidon after dispute with local deity
“Poseidon is a Greek god who is alien to our ... Defenders of the statue — which strikingly shows Poseidon’s body rising mightily from a relatively, calm, open stretch of water near the ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People "anointed her with precious unguents ...