In Texas, a woman bought a marble bust for about $35 from a Goodwill store. It is now temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II. Art collector Laura Young found the bust at Goodwill back in 2018. It once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is temporarily displaying the piece until it is returned to Germany next year. The ancient Roman bust dates to the first century B.C. or first century A.D. and historians believe it may depict a son of Pompey the Great, who was defeated in civil war by Julius Caesar, the museum said. The sculpture was last seen in Aschaffenburg, Germany, and experts believe a soldier took the sculpture and brought it to the United States, the museum said. A Sotheby’s consultant identified the work and it was further authenticated, the museum said.
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