The Art Newspaper16d
Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
Following its repatriation, the griffin will return to the Met ... In 2022, Stern gifted his collection of ancient Cycladic art to Greece, and under the terms of a 25-year agreement a rotating ...
The New York Times18d
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...
The Spokesman-Review18d
Met Museum returning ancient bronze thought stolen from Greek museum
The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website, the ...
Artnet18d
The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece
The cast-bronze head of a griffin was bequeathed to the Met in ... where she also received a lekythos, a type of ancient Greek vessel, from the Glencairn Museum in Pennsylvania during an official ...
Channels Television17d
New York’s Met Museum Returns Stolen Greek Bronze
The Greek culture ministry in a statement said the bronze griffin's head, dated to 650-625 BC and was an "exquisite sample of ancient Greek metalwork." ...
Smithsonian Magazine16d
The Met Returns Stolen Seventh-Century B.C.E. Bronze Griffin Head to Greece
The griffin head wasn’t the only artifact that Mendoni received during her trip. During an event at the Greek embassy, she was also given a lekythos, an ancient Greek flask, that had been housed ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN16d
The Met Returns Stolen Seventh-Century B.C.E. Bronze Griffin Head to Greece
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in the 1930s. The artifact was ...
Greek Reporter17d
The Met Returns Stolen Ancient Bronze Griffin’s Head to Greece
It ended up at The Met in 1972. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned an ancient bronze griffin’s head to Greece after determining that the 7th-century BC artifact ...
Greek City Times16d
Ancient Greek Bronze Griffin Returns to Greece from MET Museum
Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni attended a special ceremony at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York, marking the official return of a 7th-century BCE bronze griffin head to Greece.
Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis Announce Another Unique Baby Name
Elon Musk has announced the arrival of his 14th child, and he has, once again, picked a unique baby name. Do you know how ...