On January 18, a man walked into a police station in northern Greece with a black plastic bag he'd just found among garbage ...

The team thinks the statue depicts the Olympian deity Hermes, considered the herald of the gods. Excavators came upon the statue on July 3 at the site of Heraclea Sintica, an ancient city in ...

Days before Valentine's Day in 1979, a two century old bust of the Greek God Hermes was stolen in broad daylight out of the ...

Archeologists unearthed a treasure from antiquity during an excavation of Heraclea Sintica, a city in Bulgaria, this week. The statue of the messenger God Hermes was an unexpected finding.

According to The Associated Press and a statement from Greek police, a man in Neoi Epivates near the city of Thessaloniki ...

A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A ...

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

A Culture Ministry statement said the nude statue resembles ancient representations of Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods, and may have decorated the townhouse of a wealthy Roman-era Athenian.

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis. Thessaloniki weeks ago unveiled a trove ...