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Researchers in Crimea identified the head of the marble statue of Laodice, who helped her Black Sea city gain freedom from Roman rule.

Search For IdentityIn 2003, a marble head, broken off a larger statue, was unearthed at the ancient site of Chersonesus in Crimea near modern-day Sevastopol. For two decades its identity flummoxed the world’s best researchers....