The Vatican Museums, seen from St. Peter’s, in an undated photo. On March 7, the Vatican and Greece finalized a deal to return three sculptural fragments from the Parthenon, which had been in the Vatican Museums for about 200 years, to their country of origin. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit F. Bucher. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
ROME (AP) – The Vatican and Greece finalized a deal March 7 for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution.
