A nearly two-meter white-marble statue of the goddess Athena has been pulled from rubble at the Western Theater in Laodikeia, an ancient Greco-Roman city near modern Denizli in southwestern Turkey.

Archaeologists pulled a nearly two-meter white marble statue of Athena from rubble fill at the ancient city of Laodicea in western Turkey on March 31, adding a rare intact example of Roman-era civic ...