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

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for wear — no head and no arms.

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.

A 2,000-year-old headless marble statue has been discovered in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. The 31-inch sculpture, depicting a woman in a robe, was found abandoned beside a bin in the area of Neoi Epivates on the outskirts of Thessaloniki.

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Police in Greece are investigating the discovery of a 2,000-year-old statue in a black bag near some trash cans in a suburban municipality in the Thessaloniki region on Saturday.

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,

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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