This ring was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation at an event taking place on May 19 in Stockholm (Sweden) after being found on Rhodes island during an excavation in 1927.
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On May 20, the Greek Ministry of Culture said that the Nobel Foundation, the agency that manages the Nobel Prizes based in Sweden, returned an ancient gold ring stolen from the island of Rhodes during World War II. Monday.
According to the above set, the ancient ring belongs to the Mycenaean civilization (about 1600 BC to 1150 BC, also known as the pre-Greek period) and has a carved image of a pair of winged sphinxes.
This ring was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation at an event taking place on May 19 in Stockholm (Sweden) after being found on the island of Rhodes during an excavation in 1927 when the island was under the sea. Italian control.
This ring was later stolen from a local archaeological museum along with many other artifacts and traveled to the United States, where it was purchased by Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biophysicist Georg von Békésy. again. Mr. Békésy’s collection was acquired by the Nobel Foundation after his death in 1972.
The ring is kept at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. In 1975, the museum’s director at that time, archaeologist Carl Gustaf Styrenius, determined that this was the ring stolen on the Greek island of Rhodes during World War II.
The Greek Ministry of Culture said the ring will be returned to the island of Rhodes and displayed at the archaeological museum here.
The Mycenaean civilization flourished at the end of the Bronze Age in the Peloponnese region of Greece, leaving behind many architectural, artistic and crafted masterpieces.
