Twenty six antiquities that were illegally stolen out of Greece in the period of Nazi occupation will be repatriated on Monday.
The repatriation event will take place at the Greek Embassy in Vienna, said a Culture Ministry announcement.
Eleven antiquities going back to the Minoan Period, seven from the Classical-Hellenistic Period along with fragments of idols, clay vessels and jars and other are among the repatriated objects.
The antiquities were smuggled by German general Julius Ringel in 1941 from the archaeological site of Knossos, Crete island, and were offered by the general to the University of Graz before 1945, announced the Culture Ministry adding that after the identification the University of Graz, in a letter to the Greek Culture Ministry, expressed its intention to return the stolen antiquities.
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Source: ANA-MPA
