The world-famous Venus de Milo is now on display in the Louvre Museum in the Paris. But what you may well not know is that the statue was actually discovered quite by accident on this little-known island in the Cyclades of Greece.
It all started in 1820 when a farmer by the name of Yorgos Kentrotas discovered the Venus de Milo statue quite by accident, somewhere between the village of Tripiti and the ancient Christian Catacombs.
Kentrotas had been searching for some stones for building material, and instead stumbled upon what has since been referred to as one of the greatest treasures of antiquity. The Venus de Milo was originally discovered in a small sealed up cave, and broken into two pieces.
