Posted on 05/23/2010 8:02:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Police in southern Greece have seized a rare twin pair of 2,500-year-old marble statues and arrested two farmers who allegedly planned to sell them abroad for euro10 million ($12.43 million), authorities said Tuesday. Police said two Greeks aged 42 and 48 were arrested in the Peloponnese area late Friday as they were loading the illegally excavated figures of young men into a truck. Authorities are seeking a third man suspected of belonging to a smuggling gang that planned to spirit the 6th century B.C. works out of the country.
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Thanks again to eleni121 for the additional (but Greek language) link and pics I can actually use on FR. :') |
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Well, now that the Greeks have arrested the last 2 entrepreneurs left in the country, they can claim to be ONE HUNDRED PERCENT communist! Quite an achievement! :-)
They should have a riot or something to celebrate the feat.
Those very early Greek statues always look Etruscan to me. Great pics, thanks!
Sorry, it’s all Greek to me.
If Omega is last, why is there Omega-3 in the stores?
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