At Least They've Gotten One Marble Back
"Greece welcomed back on Tuesday a marble fragment from a frieze decorating the Parthenon temple which an Austrian soldier removed during World War Two… An inscription on the fragment, measuring 7-by-30 cm (2.8 by 12 inches), says it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16, 1943 - in the midst of the three-year occupation of Greece by the Axis powers, led by Germany." Yahoo! (Reuters) 12/02/08

Posted December 3, 2008 06:04 AM