Greece fights for lost treasures
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Rosie Goldsmith reports from Greece which has begun to fight hard to save its antiquities and archaeological sites from decay and looting.
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Greek authorities are investigating one of the country's most mysterious murder cases after a family of hunters was killed over the weekend while pursuing their hobby in the plains of central Greece.
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ATHENS - The Olympic oracles had long prophesized doom for the Summer Games&#39; Greek homecoming. Unfinished venues. Lax security.
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Greece are quick out of the blocks when it comes to making money out of their Olympic medal winners.
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Norway, Germany, France, Britain  Romania, New Zealand and Australia all looted the gold-medal  chest in the Athens Olympic rowing basin on Saturday, as Greece  counted the cost of the Games in national pride and treasure.
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The hunt for tiny treasures continues.
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Four museums in California are searched for antiquities allegedly smuggled from south east Asia.
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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece  -- Adam Nelson couldn&#39;t help himself. While parading with his silver medal around the ancient site that gave birth to the Olympics 28 centuries ago, he paused to look at the mark in the dirt he thought was his gold-medal spot.
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Greek police find a priceless ancient icon stolen from monastery last month hidden in a house in southern 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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ATHENS, Greece -- Wherever they can, the Greeks seek to incorporate some customs and traditions of the original Olympics.
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"It would have been the final tombstone for this temple"  Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.After receiving information about the discovery during construction work on a tourist resort on the coast of southern Calabria, police used helicopters to locate the site near the town of Crotone, said art squad officials from the Carabinieri paramilitary police.More than 50 artifacts, including columns and mosaics, had been excavated from the site and used to decorate another hotel complex nearby, while other pieces had been placed in a dump to be reused as construction material. Read more
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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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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Italy has asked the New York collector Shelby White to consider returning more than 20 ancient artifacts that it argues were illegally mined from its soil.
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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.