A teenager has recreated the Venus de Milo out of snow in her back garden. Emily Bates, 17, sculpted the frozen goddess in her Leeds garden when her school had an inset day. Her mum, Sue Bates, said ...
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...
On January 18, a man walked into a police station in northern Greece with a black plastic bag he'd just found among garbage ...
A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.
Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War II.