Palermo
Ancient Greece
Italy Set to Permanently Return Fragment of Parthenon to Greece
Italy intends to return the "Fagan fragment," a piece of sculpture from the Parthenon, to Greece permanently, according to a statement released by the Italian Culture Ministry on Friday.
The fragment, which was formerly housed in the Antonio Salinas Museum...
Archaeology
Greece Loans Statue to Italy in Return for Parthenon Gesture
Greece loaned a statue of Athena from the Acropolis Museum to the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Italy on Wednesday.
The statue, which dates to between 420-400 B.C., shows the goddess leaning on her spear (which is now...
Ancient Greece
Parthenon Marbles Fragment Returns Home to the Acropolis Museum
A fragment of the Parthenon Marbles which returned from Italy to its home at the Acropolis Museum on Monday was welcomed in a special ceremony attended by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The symbolic and practical gesture made by the autonomous region...
Ancient Greece
Italy Returns Parthenon Marbles Fragment to Greece in Nudge to UK
Italy is returning a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, authorities in Greece and Italy said on Wednesday in a move that adds new pressure on the British Museum to send its own pieces of the works back...
Greece
New Low-Cost Airline to Launch Flights From Athens
Spanish low-cost airline Volotea announced its plans to operate from Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport. Starting from April 2015, the low-cost company, which since 2012 is offering more than 60,000 seats for destinations across Europe and North Africa, will connect...
Europe
Tomb Raiders Caught Near Palermo Carrying Greek Artifacts
It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood adventure film, but early on Aug. 22, Italian police arrested three tomb raiders caught digging up an archaeological site near the Sicilian city of Palermo.
Italian police said the gang was digging...