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See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria
The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...
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Blake Pontchartrain: The mysterious origins of the marble statues in NOLA's Jackson Square
Jackson Square, designed as military parade grounds, was known as the Place d’Armes during the French colonial period and ...
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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
After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned ...
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2,000-year-old statue found dumped near garbage cans in Greece
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...
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 ...
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2,000-year-old statue found in rubbish bag in Greece
A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded ... In 2013, an 1,800-year-old carved stone head of a possible Roman god was found in an ancient rubbish dump in ...
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Restoring Milan's Duomo, one statue at a time
makes a rough outline in the marble with his chisel. Then with surgical precision, he sculpts it with a pneumatic hammer, before smoothing it with an abrasive stone. - 'Adopt' a statue - In the ...
Ancient 2,000-year-old statue found in a bin bag in Greece
A historic marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag by a local resident near Thessaloniki, Greece.