World Scene: Greece

Acropolis marble returned

Greece welcomed back on Tuesday a marble fragment from a frieze decorating the Parthenon temple which an Austrian soldier removed during World War II, but renewed a call for all its stolen treasures to be returned.

An inscription on the fragment, measuring 7-by-30 cm, says it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16, 1943, in the midst of the three-year occupation of Greece by the Axis powers, led by Germany.