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Vatican says they're gifts; Indigenous groups want them back
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from...
Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules statue struck by lightning
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoScaffolding in a niche of the Vatican Museums’ Round Hall conceal from view the work of restorers...
Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Vatican Museums officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections Thursday...
Firm Tied to Vatican Museums Accused of ‘High-Tech Heist’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVATICAN MEDIAROME—A publishing firm that specializes in high-dollar glossy coffee table books...
Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPope Francis said Sunday that talks were underway to return colonial-era artifacts in the Vatican...
Steady hearts, steady hands as Vatican experts restore masterpieces
Reuters via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWhenever Alessandra Zarelli, a restorer at the Vatican Museums, works on a masterpiece by an artist...
Pope returns Greece's Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPope Francis will send back to Greece the three fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures that the...
The Vatican is returning Parthenon sculptures to the Greek Orthodox Church as a 'donation' more than...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPope Francis is met by Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronimos II, as he arrives on the Greek...
American tourist upset about not meeting the pope smashes Vatican artifacts, guards say
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoAn American tourist’s visit to Vatican City ended with him in police custody and multiple artifacts...
American tourist demands to see pope, smashes two sculptures at Vatican
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn American tourist has been taken into custody after officials say he damaged two ancient Roman...