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

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 ...

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

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.

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, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek ...