It was handed over to a German woman who stole it half a century ago. Greece recovers an antiquity
A German woman returned to An archaeological column crown stolen from the site of Olympia more than half a century ago.
It was reported , that the crown made of Greek Antiquities This is the third antiquity returned from the German University of Münster in recent years, as the handover took place on Friday. The ministry said that the woman "Motivated by the recent return of important artifacts from the University of Münster to their countries of origin, I decided to hand over the artifact to the university, which in turn contributed to its return to Greece and ancient Olympia."praising"Her humanitarian sense and courage" In 2019, the university returned a double-handled wine cup that had belonged to one of the winners of the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. Then, in 2024, it returned a marble head dating back to the Roman era, sourced from a cemetery in the city of Thessaloniki. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture said. Georgios Didaskalos N "This act proves that culture and history know no borders, but rather require cooperation, responsibility and mutual respect" As for Torben Schreiber, curator of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Münster, he said: "It is never too late to do what is right, what is moral and just" Athens has been seeking for years to reach agreements to return antiquities to its homeland without resorting to the judicial path, and its main goal remains to recover the Parthenon Marbles that have been kept by the British Museum since the nineteenth century.Recovering the Parthenon Marbles
