{"id":3519,"date":"2025-10-15T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/woman-returns-stolen-ancient-greek-artifact-after-50-years\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:07:14","slug":"woman-returns-stolen-ancient-greek-artifact-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/woman-returns-stolen-ancient-greek-artifact-after-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman returns stolen Ancient Greek artifact after 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-15 10:07:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A German woman has returned an ancient artifact stolen from Olympia more than half a century ago, in what Greek officials hailed as an act of \u201csensitivity and courage.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nThe limestone column capital, measuring 24cm high and 33.5cm wide, was taken in the 1960s from the Leonidaion, a 4th-century BC guesthouse that once hosted athletes and dignitaries in Ancient Olympia.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to the Greek Ministry of Culture, the woman voluntarily handed over the relic to the University of M\u00fcnster in Germany, which coordinated its return. <BR><br \/>\nIt marks the third artifact the university has helped repatriate to Greece in recent years.<BR><br \/>\nGiorgos Didaskalou, Greece\u2019s General Secretary of Culture,said: &#8220;This is a particularly moving moment.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This act proves that culture and history know no borders but require cooperation, responsibility and mutual respect.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nTorben Schreiber, curator of the University of M\u00fcnster\u2019s archaeological museum, added: &#8220;It is never too late to do the right thing &#8211; the moral and the just.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe return follows the university\u2019s previous restitutions, including a twin-handled wine cup linked to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and a Roman-era marble head from Thessaloniki.<BR><br \/>\nGreece continues to push for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, maintaining that such gestures of goodwill show the growing importance of cultural restitution.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-15 10:07:12 A German woman has returned an ancient artifact stolen from Olympia more than half a century ago, in what Greek officials hailed as an act of \u201csensitivity and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}