Ancient Greek sculpture

A Hellenistic plasma intaglio, engraved with a young warrior seated on a rock (323-31 BC), is among the items stolen from the British Museum. The museum has launched a public hotline asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artifacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewelry.

The Culture Minister has said that her ministry is following developments at the British Museum "very carefully" after it emerged that the London institution's curator of Greek collections, Greek sculpture and the Hellenistic period was sacked after the disappearance of precious objects.

Two 2,500-year-old marble statues and an inscription have been found during excavations at the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos, one of the best-preserved Roman temples of Anatolia, in the western province of Muğla.

Built with donations in the second century B.C., the temple is located in the ancient city of Euromos.

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The glass roof of the Duveen Gallery in the British Museum which houses the Parthenon Marbles is dripping, with water collecting next to the sculptures, according to a report by Skai TV on Friday.

Museum officials had placed on Friday morning absorbing paper over the water and plastic signs to warn visitors of the slippery floor.

Two Kouros-type statues from the Archaic era are seen in photo released on Saturday. The statues were among four unearthed during excavations in October by the ephorate of antiquities of Fthiotida and Evrytania in the wider area of Atalanti in central Greece.

Two Greek nationals were arrested Friday for the illegal possession of a kouros statue dated to the 6th century BC. The two suspects, aged 36 and 63, were nabbed during a police check of their car in the area of the Corinth Canal in the Peloponnese.

The official request by global luxury brand Gucci to hold a fashion show at the Parthenon in Athens on June 1 has caused some uproar in Greece. According to newspaper Eleftheros Typos, the company has also asked to record the fashion event, but the chances of the Greek authorities accepting its request are slim.

Turkey on Dec. 6 announced its support for Greece's fight to get back from Britain the famous Elgin Marbles - ancient Greek sculptures also known as the Parthenon Marbles which were taken from Athens in the 19th century.