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 Metropolitan Museum of Art during one of the busiest times in its history.

The worship of mammon and mammon-makers has brought us to the point where a rich felon purports to rule the world and carve ...

When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag in a trash can, he was probably relieved it was made of marble. It turns out the ...

Just last month, construction workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright near the Acropolis. And a few weeks ago, the city of ...

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 ...

In the UK, a similar shocking discovery was made during 2013 when a 1,800-year-old carved stone head of a possible Roman god was found ... a Roman-era statue of Hermes was unearthed during ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

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 ...

The headless statue of a woman was found in a bin bag in Thessaloniki. Credit: AP A marble statue believed to be more than 2,000 years old has been found abandoned in a bin bag near the Greek city ...