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The AP/Yahoo blurb at right failed
to say when Italy will pay reparations to decedents of the people they
killed.
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Photo made available by the Italian Culture Ministry Tuesday
4/24/07, showing a headless Roman statue of the goddess Venus - named in
Italian the 'Venere di Cirene.' Italy will return to Libya the ancient
Roman statue taken from the former North African colony - a move Rome
hopes will help its own campaign to retrieve allegedly looted
antiquities from museums worldwide. The statue of Venus was brought to
Italy after it was found in 1913 by Italian troops near the ruins of the
Greek and Roman settlement of Cyrene, on the Libyan coast, the Culture
Ministry said Tuesday. A date for the 2nd-century statue's return has
yet to be set, ministry officials said. The statue is now housed in
Rome's National Roman Museum.
(AP Photo/Ministero dei Beni Culturali - Italian Culture Ministry,
HO) |