Greece receives ancient Cretan armor in a New York repatriation
A New York ceremony marked the return to Greece of 15 antiquities that Manhattan prosecutors said had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The items included two bronze helmets and three waist guards from Afrati in Crete, as well as a Bronze Age beak-spouted jug from the Argolis–Corinthia region.
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