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An American woman bought the head of a statue for $ 35, and it turned out to be a great Roman leader, over 2,000 years old

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A woman bought a white marble statue of a human head in a charitable store in the United States, only to discover later that she had acquired a priceless 2,000-year-old masterpiece.

Laura Young, an antiques dealer from Austin, Texas, bought a 50-pound bust in 2018 for just $35, strapped it in her car with a seat belt and took it home.

And Laura Young contacted an auction house in London to display her sculpture, to get the shocking answer, that the sculpture was most likely a bust that served as a portrait of the Roman general Drusus Germanicus, and that the date of its sculpture could be traced back to two thousand years.

According to the house’s information, its last known location was in the 1920s and 1930s in a museum in the German city of Aschaffenburg that was built in the 1840s and was heavily damaged in World War II.

Stephenie Mulder, professor of art history at the University of Austin, suggested that an American soldier either looted the bust himself or bought it from someone else who preceded him.

The whereabouts of the bust remained a mystery since then until it randomly appeared in a charity store in Austin.

Discovering his provenance, and his stolen origin, Young must return it to Germany, where this is now overseen by a New York lawyer specializing in international art law.

It is worth noting that the statue will be displayed at the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art in the United States for a year before returning to Germany in 2023, where it will be received by the Bavarian State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes Administration.

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