The Economic Times

An Oxfordshire farmer kept a small bronze figure in a margarine tub for more than 10 years; it proved to be a Roman Minerva statue dating to around AD 43200

In a surprising twist of fate, a retired truck driver unearthed a nearly 2,000-year-old statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess, in Oxfordshire. Initially dismissed as a modern fake, the statue was later recognized by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Minerva, revered for her wisdom and arts, symbolizes the hidden treasures that could lie beneath mundane settings, reminding us that history often waits to be discovered in the most ordinary places.