US Returns $3.7 Million Worth of Ancient Artifacts to Greece

The 30 artifacts, illicitly removed and dating back up to 4,700 years, were surrendered or seized from various collectors and dealers.

The United States has returned 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, to Greece.
The artifacts, collectively valued at $3.7 million, were found to have been illicitly removed from Greece and date back from as long as 4,700 years ago to the Middle Ages.
Nineteen of the artifacts were voluntarily surrendered by New York gallery owner Michael Ward, while others were seized from British art dealer Robin Symes and a New York-based private collector.
The returned works include a Roman-era headless marble statue of Aphrodite, seven bronze helmets dating from 6th century B.C. to 3rd century B.C., two bronze and two iron breastplates for soldiers, a medieval silver platter, a marble Cycladic figurine dating to 2,700-2,300 B.C. and Mycenaean and Minoan Cretan pottery.
This return follows two similar operations earlier this year and last year, when a total of 84 works were returned from New York.