Ukranian statues found to be ancient artifacts of the Polish aristocracy

In Lwow Art Gallery an extraordinary exhibition of antique statues has been opened. For a long time these sculptures could be found in the Palace at Sta re Rozdole (Ukraine) and were incorrectly considered to date back to the 17t h century. Recently, when the palace was closed and put up for sale, the st atues ended up in the garbage. Borys Wozny, manager of the Lwow Art Gallery had them examined and they were discovered to date back to ancient times. Th e whole incredible story with which the Lanckoronscy, the famous Polish aris tocratic family, is closely connected, has been kept secret for many years. The ancient statues were brought from Asia Minor by an expedition organized in 1884 by Karol Lanckoronski. The bodies of the statues date back 2,000 yea rs, to the time of the Greek expansion, and their heads to the Roman times. (Rzeczpospolita, p:A1) A.C.