Ancient statues have been found in trash before in Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy.

A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A local resident stumbled upon the 31-inch statue next to a bin in Neoi Epivates and promptly alerted authorities.

A 2,000-year-old marble statue was found in a garbage bag near Thessaloniki in Greece. Discovered by a resident, the headless statue dates to the Hellenistic era and is now under examination by archaeologists before being preserved by local authorities.

A headless marble statue, believed to be over 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. Dating to the Hellenist