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Police in Greece say a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old has been found abandoned in a garbage bag and handed to archaeologists.

Thessaloniki's first metro line, inaugurated after almost two decades of work, offers a journey through time that connects passengers with the city's ancient history, thanks to the archaeological sites and monuments restored at its stations.

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets in 110 cities Sunday, including 13 locations abroad, to demand justice for the 57 victims of the country’s deadliest rail disaster in 2023.

The demonstrations recalled the mass protests of the working class which filled up city centres during the movement against austerity in Greece from 2010.

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a plastic bag among trash bins near the northern city of Thessaloniki. It was a headless, armless statue depicting a female form in a flowing, draped garment.

More than 40,000 people protested in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, demanding justice for the families of the 57 victims who died in a train crash in 2023, the worst railroad accident in Greece's history.

Thousands of protesters gathered Sunday outside Greece's parliament demanding justice for the 57 people who died two years ago in the Tempi train disaster. The recent surge in protests was triggered

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of 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.

Greek authorities have arrested a Turkish man after discovering a major weapons cache on his drifting vessel near the northern port of Alexandroupolis.

Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its handling of a deadly rail disaster nearly two years ago. The pledge was prompted by mounting public anger over delays in the inquiry and allegations of a cover-up that the government strongly denies.