Getty to Return Gold Wreath to Greece
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After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil.
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ATHENS, Jan 21 (IPS) - On Dec. 20, three days after his resignation as  secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Chistos Zahopoulos jumped  from the fourth floor of his flat in Athens city centre. He has  partly recovered but is going to face serious long-term health  problems.
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ATHENS -- Many of Greece's most valued ancient statues are wearing chains and padded vests, ready for a rare outing.
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From love letters to evening dresses, personal belongings of Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas will be put up for sale in Milan in December.
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ATHENS All of Greece expected to see Costas Kenteris crowning its Games with a laurel wreath on his brow, his barrel chest swelling in his blue and white athletic singlet, atop the podium in the Olympic Stadium after successfully defending his 200- meter ...
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The stars are getting ready to walk down the red carpet that leads to the 79th Academy Awards. Depending on who gets a golden statue, this year's award ceremony could make history in a number of ways.
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A Greek prosecutor on Tuesday charged a former curator of the American J. Paul Getty Museum with knowingly buying an ancient artifact which had been illegally dug up and smuggled out of Greece 13 years ago.
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Experts have restored a 1,400-year-old glass mosaic glowing in gold, recovered from a site next to the Sea of Galilee, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday.
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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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New Zealand is glad three of its athletes have been crowned Olympic champions -- but if their Athens olive wreaths come home they risk going up in smoke.
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MOSCOW A Russian icon is back home after hanging for years in Pope John Paul&#39;s private chapel. The Vatican is returning the 18th century replica of the Mother of God of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church
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More than 20 paintings by European masters hanging in galleries in the Czech Republic should be returned to the Canadian heirs of the Jewish man who collected them, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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James Wood, who for 24 years headed  the Art Institute of Chicago, was named on Monday to take  charge of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the super-rich foundation  rocked by scandals over looted antiquities and executive pay.
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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 Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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Heraklio, Greece (Sports Network) - The old faces of US women&#39;s soccer bid adieu, while the new faces introduced themselves in a gold-medal winning effort at the Athens Olympics on Thursday night at Karaiskaki Stadium.
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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.
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Russia will return so-called trophy art taken from Nazi Germany during World War II only on a case-by-case basis, an official said Friday, arguing that most of the cultural treasures Moscow retains were seized as compensation for huge Soviet wartime damage.