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RT James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT)In 1863, on a remote Greek island, a worker digging in the ruins of a 2,000 year old sanctuary stopped and shouted to the French diplomat supervising the excavation:"Monsieur, we have found a woman."What he had found was not a woman. It was a giant marble torso. No head. No arms. But a pair of broken wings...She is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, carved around 190 BC.The statue depicts the goddess Nike, the personification of victory in the ancient Greek world. She is shown a ...