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Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece

Detail of Caryatid Porch on the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Ancient Erechtheion or Erechtheum temple. World famous landmark at the Acropolis Hill

BBC News

By Antoinette Radford

March 25, 2023

The Vatican has returned three fragments of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece in a move that has been described as a “gesture of friendship”.

The decision to return the 2,500-year-old marbles was announced by Pope Francis last year.

One is a chunk of a horses head, the other a bearded man and the third a head of a boy.