The amazing Venus of Alicante: a 2,000-year-old head pokes out from among stones, traffic cones and a supermarket bag
El hallazgo de una escultura de la diosa romana por unos operarios en una zanja no ha estado exento de polémica política en la ciudad
An excavator digs a trench near the Almadraba beach in Alicante, 50 meters from an archaeological site. It's pipeline work that's part of the municipal project to regenerate the beach, located between the Albufereta and the Cape of Huertas. As the shovel passes by, the usual things appear: stones, pebbles, and even crates of beer.
Until one of the workers stops. Among all the alluvial material, a female marble head emerges. A survivor of two millennia of dragging and alluvium, without any archaeological context, in good condition, which ends up in a Mercadona bag, protected by barely some bubble wrap.
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