Germany's Pfahlbaumuseum has expressed its intention to the Greece’s culture ministry to return antiquities looted during WWII, according to a document signed by Alternate Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras which was forwarded to parliament, it was announced on Wednesday.
Tzavaras told ANA-MPA that the antiquities, roughly 8,000 fragments of Neolithic Age vessels, will be returned in June. They were unearthed during an illegal excavation in 1941 in a region near Velestino, central Greece and were illegally exported to Germany by an archaeologist.
Source: Athens News Agency
May 30, 2013
