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Police recover artifacts stolen from Olympia

Police recover artifacts stolen from Olympia | Archaeology News | Scoop.it

Police in Patra, western Greece, on Saturday arrested three men in connection with the looting of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in February.

 

All of the stolen artifacts have been recovered, police said.

“The discovery and arrest of the perpetrators of the robbery and the recovery of the stolen items are a great success,” Alternate Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras said in a statement Saturday.

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Divers find ruins from Viking 'marketplace' - The Local

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Divers off the coast of Birka, an ancient Viking village near Stockholm, have uncovered 100 metre long jetties suggesting a coastal marketplace that was not previously imagined.
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