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A 2,500-year-old statue buried face down under a Roman road has been discovered in Sardis.

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The statue, over 2.13 metres tall, depicts a man with long hair and an elaborate tunic. It was broken into two fragments and found beneath a Roman colonnaded avenue in the ancient capital of the Lydian Empire, in modern-day Turkey.

Source: Harvard-Cornell

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