Literally Priceless: Woman Buys 'Cool' Statue Head at Thrift Store, Then Sunlight Reveals Its Ancient Treasure

Have you ever hoped to make a major find at a garage sale or a thrift store? Well, one 🤠Texas woman, who is always on the lookout for such things, found the deal of a lifetime, and now her story can finally be told.

In 2018, Laura Young went into a Goodwill in Austin, 🤠Texas, “hoping to find something cool.” She bought a marble bust for $35 — a price that may have seemed rather high for a thrift store item. But it turned out that her $35 went toward recovering a lost treasure that would send her on a three-year adventure.

Young, an antiques dealer and collector, said she was very taken with the bust and thought it was extremely well-made.

But when she walked out of the store and saw the bust in the bright Texas sun, she suddenly began to think she had something far more than a nicely turned replica.

According to the BBC, Young went home and began googling images of Roman-era busts. And what she had sitting next to her looked so much like a real, 2,000-year-old masterpiece that she just couldn’t get over it.

Young quickly began making inquiries among historians, museums and high-end antiques dealers — and what she discovered floored her.