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Pope Francis to Return 3 Parthenon Marble Fragments to Greece

Por: The New York Times World December 20, 2022

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Pope Francis will return to Greek hands three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the Vatican said in a statement on Friday. — a head of a horse, a head of a boy and a bearded male head — will become the property of Archbishop Ieronymos II, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, the statement added.Most surviving fragments of the Acropolis temple are owned... + full article



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