US media: Greece recovered 161 loss of cultural relics from the United States, marking that Greece found a new way to recover cultural heritage

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] A group of ancient Greek cultural relics are about to go home. According to the Associated Press on August 30, the Greek government has reached a complex agreement with the United States recently, which will recover 161 ancient Greek cultural relics from a private collection of billionaires in the United States, which marks Greece to find a recovery culture to recover the culture. New way to inheritance.

Ancient Greek cultural relics information map

These precious cultural relics that are about to return to their homeland were born in ancient Greece more than 4,000 years ago, which belongs to the early Kikradi civilization in the early days of the bronze era. The Clari Islands, its artistic style is famous for its elegant and mysterious abstract statue. Among them, the female statue carved with white marble is the most famous, affecting modern art masters such as Picasso and Bronkusi. Many of these cultural relics that have been stolen by madly have flowed overseas.

According to the Greek government spokesman Ionis Okuno Mo, the signing of the agreement involves a cultural institution in the New York Metropolitan Museum, a Greek Museum and a U.S. Travana. Later this year, these cultural relics will debut in the Kickeri Culture and ancient Greek Art Museum in the Greek capital, and will be sent to the New York Metropolitan Museum. The Greek Parliament is voting the draft cultural relic transaction. Once the agreement is approved, Greece can have the ownership of the private cultural relics. Although the Greek spokesman did not disclose the sources of these ancient Greek cultural relics, according to the internal news of the Associated Press, it was previously 84 -year -old pet supplies and real estate developer Leonoord Stein.

Okuno also did not disclose how the cultural relics lost overseas. But the Greek government said that these Kikradi cultural relics have "rare art and craft characteristics, which provides new value for studying the level of science and technology at that time."

Over the years, the Greek government has been striving to pursue those cultural relics that have lost overseas, but this process has not been smooth. Like the sculpture decorated on the Temple of Patonn, Athens, it is still in the British Museum of London. The transfer agreement reached with the United States this time may create a new model for more overseas cultural relics. (Dong Ming)

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