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

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 garbage bag and handed to archaeologists.

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.

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.

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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 Epivates and promptly alerted 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