Greece removes historic sites from fund list after privatization protests

Greece's government has taken 2,330 archaeological sites, monuments and museums out of a state assets fund, after protests by Greeks who feared their heritage might be sold off.

Knossos Palace in Crete was one of the priceless items put into the fund - a holding company owned by the Greek state - to satisfy Greece's foreign creditors under the last financial bailout in 2015.

The fund also oversees several state utilities, a bailout fund for Greek banks and the privatisation agency.

The government has repeatedly denied the site and monuments could be sold, but that has not prevented protests, including a one-day strike by archaeologists in October which closed the Acropolis, an attraction for millions of Athens visitors every year.

"The cultural assets are exempted," Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba told reporters on Tuesday, announcing a ministerial...