Greeks Hail Getty MuseumÂs Pledge to Return Treasures
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced on Monday that it had agreed to hand over an ancient gold funerary wreath and a marble statue that were illegally excavated and removed from Greece.
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Two ancient Greek artefacts, which were   smuggled out of the country, came home on Thursday as part of   an agreement with the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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A 700-year-old icon that had been stolen in August was returned Sunday to a monastery in southern Greece in a ceremony attended by hundreds of worshippers.
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Thousands of people have queued for hours to get a first glimpse at New York&#39;s beloved Museum of Modern Art, which reopened its doors after a two-year exile and a $US425 million facelift.
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ROME - Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal yesterday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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Images from Athens where workers have been using cranes to move sculptures from the Acropolis to a new museum.
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Encouraged by worldwide praises for its successful hosting of the Olympic Games, self-confident Greeks are expecting a big boom in foreign investment in the post-Olympic era.
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An exhibit at the British Museum shows the Parthenon Marbles not as austere colourless ghosts, but as the ancient Greeks saw them.
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Greece's top religious leader asked Pope Benedict on Thursday to return a piece of the Parthenon in the Vatican Museums, Greek officials said.
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The Apollo Gallery, one of the glories of the Louvre Museum in Paris, will throw open its art treasures to public gaze again from November 27 after a 4.5-million-euro (5.9-million-dollar), three-year makeover.
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A fund-raising campaign has saved a rare, richly illustrated medieval psalter from moving to the J. Paul Getty Museum, organizers said Monday.
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With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors around the world.
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A rediscovered El Greco painting is bought by the Greek island of Crete, the birthplace of the artist.
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The National Archaeological Museum, Greece's main showcase of ancient antiquity, is reopening with an exhibit of rare murals after repairing damage to the building caused by a 1999 earthquake.
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Hereâs an apt attraction for the start of the new year: âThe Art of Timeâ at the Metropolitan Museum, a wonderful presentation of about 90 European timepieces from the museumâs permanent collection.
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An art collection worth more than 4 million that was thought to have been lost more than 50 years ago has been discovered by chance as museum staff struggled to save paintings from a flood.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Monday that it would return to Greece an ancient gold wreath and a marble bust that Greece claims were illegally spirited out of the country.