Ancient Greek sculpture

The antiquities, which had been removed from Greece at an unknown time and were in the possession of an American citizen, have been repatriated from Atlanta, USA.

The items are:

A European court on Thursday upheld Italy's right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage and rejecting the museum's appeal.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou wrapped up her official visit to Chile unveiling a replica of the Kore statue from the Archaic period that will go on display at Santiago's Grecia metro station. Donated by the Acropolis Museum the artefact is meant to symbolize the friendly ties between the two nations.

A Hellenistic plasma intaglio, engraved with a young warrior seated on a rock (323-31 BC), is among the items stolen from the British Museum. The museum has launched a public hotline asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artifacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewelry.

The Culture Minister has said that her ministry is following developments at the British Museum "very carefully" after it emerged that the London institution's curator of Greek collections, Greek sculpture and the Hellenistic period was sacked after the disappearance of precious objects.

Two 2,500-year-old marble statues and an inscription have been found during excavations at the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos, one of the best-preserved Roman temples of Anatolia, in the western province of Muğla.

Built with donations in the second century B.C., the temple is located in the ancient city of Euromos.

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The glass roof of the Duveen Gallery in the British Museum which houses the Parthenon Marbles is dripping, with water collecting next to the sculptures, according to a report by Skai TV on Friday.

Museum officials had placed on Friday morning absorbing paper over the water and plastic signs to warn visitors of the slippery floor.

Two Kouros-type statues from the Archaic era are seen in photo released on Saturday. The statues were among four unearthed during excavations in October by the ephorate of antiquities of Fthiotida and Evrytania in the wider area of Atalanti in central Greece.

Two Greek nationals were arrested Friday for the illegal possession of a kouros statue dated to the 6th century BC. The two suspects, aged 36 and 63, were nabbed during a police check of their car in the area of the Corinth Canal in the Peloponnese.