Greek Reporter10d
2200 BC Bronze Age Settlement Unearthed in Maghreb Predates Phoenician Period
Researchers have uncovered the first Bronze Age settlement in Maghreb dating back to as early as 2200 BC, predating the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN16d
The Met Returns Stolen Seventh-Century B.C.E. Bronze Griffin Head to Greece
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in the 1930s. The artifact was ...
The New York Times19d
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was ...
Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece's carnival
Vasiliki Pergada and her 4-year-old daughter Panagiota, dressed in animal skins and heavy bronze bells, join revelers ...
Artnet19d
The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to return a 7th-century bronze head of a griffin to Greece. This follows new provenance research that suggests the artifact was probably stolen ...
BBC14y
Bronze Age Britain
The Mycenaeans created the finest bronze weapons. They came from southern Russia at around 2,000 BC, and settled in the lowlands of Greece. There they began to trade with the Minoans. They built a ...
The Art Newspaper17d
Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...
The Spokesman-Review18d
Met Museum returning ancient bronze thought stolen from Greek museum
The bronze head of a griffin from the seventh century B.C. will be returned to Greece by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which said it had determined that the artifact was likely stolen almost a ...