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Five rare Byzantine fresco-icons stolen in 1978 return to Greece

Rare Byzantine hagiography frescoe (Photo @ yppo.gr) Five rare Byzantine hagiography frescoes stolen in 1978 from the Palaiopanagia Church in Steni, Evia, returned to Greece from Basle, Switzerland at dawn Thursday. The priceless fresco-icons, dating from the 13th and 16th centuries, stolen by Greek antiquities smugglers from the church in August 1978 and illegally sent out of the country […]

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