Source: Government of Greece
New York, October 3, 2025 — In a formal handover ceremony held at the Consulate General of Greece in New York, twenty-nine antiquities were officially returned to the Hellenic Republic by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, Head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.The event was attended by George Didaskalou, Secretary General of Culture, Iphigenia Kanara, Consul General of Greece in New York, and senior officials from the Directorate for Documentation and Protection of Cultural Property.The repatriated artifacts span a broad chronological range — from the Final Neolithic period (5,000–4,000 BCE) to the Late Hellenistic period…