The laurel is evaluated as a priceless work due to its historical and archaeological significance, believed to have been worn by kings from the 1st and 3rd centuries BCE.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

A statue dating more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

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

An approximately 3,500-year-old settlement was discovered in Egypt in Kom el-Negus, located about 27 miles west of Alexandria ...

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...

An ancient statue dating to the Hellenistic era was found in a black bag next to garbage bins in Greece's northern city of ...

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

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 ...

The Classical period is famous for Athenian democracy, Socrates and Plato, and the Hellenistic period saw Greek cultural influence peak across the Mediterranean region. But around 2,150 years ago ...