Lucky find leads to more buried treasure

A Greek farmer’s recent discovery of a fragment of an ancient statue while tilling his field has yielded three more statues and several graves in the past month. Archaeologists have been busy since midoctober, digging part of a field near the central Greek town of Atalanti, 150km northwest of Athens. The dig began after the farmer found the torso of an ancient kouros (young man) and alerted the authorities. Greece’s Culture Ministry said yesterday that a total of four large fragments of life-size limestone statues have been found.