World Scene: Greece
China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-04 07:54
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.
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