Thieves loot Greece's Ancient Olympia museum
BBC News
Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a Greekmuseum dedicated to the history of the early Olympics. Two masked men smashed display cabinets and took more than 60 objects after overpowering a guard at the museum in Olympia, officials said.
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| Greece's Olympia Museum Robbed; Culture Minister Offers to Quits International Business Times By Esther Tran Le: Subscribe to Esther's RSS feed Early Friday morning, two masked gunmen broke into the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece. According to reports, they tied up and gagged a female museum guard before ... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times |
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msnbc.com
Dimitris Papaioannou / AP Onlookers and police gather near the museum in Olympia, Greece, following Friday's theft. By msnbc.com staff and news services Updated at 10:32 am ET: ATHENS, Greece -- Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's ...
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Gunmen raid museum at Ancient Olympia, as guards say cutbacks threaten Greek...
Washington Post
With unemployment at 21 percent and Greece's economy in its fifth year of recession, crime, poverty and homeless rates also have been increasing. Friday's robbers targeted the museum of the ancient Games at Olympia, a few hundred yards (meters) away ...
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Greek culture minister resigns over ancient Olympia theft
Canada.com
Dancers dressed as priestesses perform during the Ceremony of the Lighting of the Olympic Flame for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games at the Ancient Olympia site on October 22, 2009 in Olympia,Greece. The Greek culture minister has resigned ...
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Up to 70 major artifacts stolen in raid on Greece's Olympia museum
Fox News
OLYMPIA, Greece – Up to 70 major artifacts were stolen from Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum in a brazen robbery Friday. Two thieves used hammers to smash their way into the museum about 7.30am local time. They bound and gagged a female employee on duty ...
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Greece: Robbers raid Olympia museum, steal artifacts
CNN
Ancient Olympia in Greece, pictured here in 2007 during a spate of brush fires, is the site of the original Olympic Games. Athens (CNN) -- Robbers broke into a museum in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics, tied and gagged a museum guard, ...
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Museum robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia
USA TODAY
Greece's Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos submitted his resignation after the robbery at the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia, but it was unclear whether it had been accepted by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos. Geroulanos was traveling to Olympia ...
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Robbers steal Olympic artifacts from Greek museum; minister quits
Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM ATHENS -- Armed robbers have stolen scores of ancient artifacts from a museum in Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics, sparking the resignation of Greece's culture minister and adding to concerns over the state's ability to ...
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| Robbery at Ancient Olympia Museum: Armed robbers steal pricelessGreek antiques Daily Mail By Jill Reilly Two masked armed robbers tied up a female museum guard and stole several dozen artefacts fromGreece's Ancient Olympia Museum, which houses one of the most important collections of ancient Greek antiquities. See all stories on this topic » |  Daily Mail |
Thieves loot ancient Olympia museum in Greece
Auction Central News
ATHENS (AFP) – Armed robbers stole more than 60 priceless artifacts including a gold ring from a Greek museum dedicated to the ancient Olympic Games on Friday, prompting the country's culture minister to resign. Two masked men took advantage of the ...
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| Armed robbers raid Ancient Olympia museum Telegraph.co.uk Robbers wielding hammers stole dozens of rare artefacts from a museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics inGreece. By Nick Squires, Rome The masked thieves tied up and gagged the only guard on duty at the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
| Thieves raid Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum The Guardian Armed robbers have stolen several dozen artefacts fromGreece's Ancient Olympia Museum, which houses one of the most important collections of ancient Greek antiquities, police and reports said. Two robbers wearing hoods broke into the museum at around ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Guardian |
Thieves loot Greek museum at Olympic birthplace
Reuters
By Harry Papachristou | ATHENS (Reuters) - Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze and pottery artefacts weeks after the country's National Gallery was also burgled.
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Greek Minister Offers to Quit After Second Museum Robbery
BusinessWeek
17 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Culture Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos offered to resign after the museum of ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, was robbed, the second major art heist this year. Yeroulanos went to the museum in southern Greece this ...
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Greece Ancient Olympia museum robbed
News24
This guide aims to be a strong incentive to the inquisitive voyager toGreece. Now R394.95 Athens - Armed robbers on Friday seized dozens of items on display at the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in ...
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| Robbery At Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum Business Insider MORE THAN 60 artefact's were removed from a museum atGreece's Ancient Olympia earlier today during the second major museum theft in the country this year. Two armed thieves wearing ski-masks tied up a museum guard before taking dozens of invaluable ... See all stories on this topic » |  Business Insider |
| Armed robbery at ancient Olympia, minister quits Bangkok Post File picture shows the lighting of the Olympic torch ceremony at ancient Olympia. Greek Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos submitted his resignation on Friday after armed robbers stole over 60 ancient objects from a museum in Olympia, officials said. See all stories on this topic » |  Bangkok Post |
15:13 Greek culture minister quits over museum robbery
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The cordon off in front of the entrance of the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Olympia, Greece, 17 February.(EPA) Police said armed thieves had broken into the one of the two museums at Olympia insouthern Greece, overpowered a female security guard ...
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Olympics museum in Greece robbed
UPI.com
OLYMPIA, Greece, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Two hooded robbers broke into an Olympics history museum in Greece with hammers, tied up an employee and stole 60 to 70 artifacts, authorities said. Athanassios Kokkalakis, a police spokesman, said the robbery Friday ...
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| Robbing Greece of Its Pride New York Times (blog) The latest theft was blamed by some on budget cuts that have been imposed on all aspects of Greek public life in an attempt to rein in the country's runaway debt. Friday's raid targeted the Ancient Olympia museum in southern Greece where a ceremony is ... See all stories on this topic » |  New York Times (blog) |
Greek Minister Quits Over Olympia Artefacts Theft
RTT News
(RTTNews) - A major theft of priceless artefacts from a museum in the birthplace of the Olympic Games in central Greece early on Friday resulted in the resignation of Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos. Reports quoting police said two masked men broke ...
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Major robbery at Greece's Ancient Olympia museum
GlobalPost
Dozens of artifacts from the archaelogical museum in ancient Olympia — the birthplace of the Olympics — were today stolen by armed robbers. The main hall of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, in Greece. (Jeanhousen/Wikimedia commons) Dozens of ...
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| Greece's culture minister offers his resignation after two armed robbers tie ... Daily Mail Police said armed thieves had broken into the one of the two museums at Olympia in southern Greece, overpowered a female security guard and stole about 70 bronze and pottery objects. 'They overwhelmed and gagged the woman who guarded the building,' a ... See all stories on this topic » | Daily Mail |
| Greece: Armed thieves rob Olympia Museum Adnkronos International English (AKI) - Armed thieves burst into a museum in Greece'sancient Olympia on Friday and made off with dozens of artifacts of "incalculable value," according to news reports, citing local mayor Thymios Kotzias. The robbers entered the Archaeological Museum ... See all stories on this topic » |  Adnkronos International English |
| Armed robbers steal 70 relics from museum in Olympia, Greece Updated at 10:32 a.m. ET: ATHENS, Greece -- Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze and pottery artifacts just weeks after the country's National Gallery was also ... Newsvine - World News - Articles |
| Ancient Olympia Antiquities Museum Is Robbed, Greece's Cultural ... By The Huffington Post News Editors ATHENS, Greece — Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing display cases with hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3200 years ... The Huffington Post | Full News Feed |
| Greece: Robbers raid Olympia museum, steal artifacts – This Just In ... By etpayne Robbers broke into a museum in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics, tying and gagging the museum guard and stealing artifacts, police inGreece said Friday. Police spokesman Athanassios Kokkalakis said two men had struck at the ... This Just In |
| World News - Armed robbers raid Greece's Ancient Olympia museum ATHENS, Greece -- Armed robbers seized dozens of items on display at the museum in Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics in southernGreece, after tying up an employee on Friday. Greece's Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos ... Newsvine - Technolog - Articles |
| Armed robbers steal priceless artefacts in Olympics birthplace | The ... The only guard at the exhibition in Olympia, Greece, is thought to have been "immobilised" by the gunmen as she arrived to take over the early morning shift. The town's mayor Thymios Kotzias told a local radio station: "There were two of them, ... HomePage - The Sun |
| Museum Robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two masked armed robbers tied up a museum guard at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece and made off with dozens of artifacts, authorities said Friday. The National Herald top stories |
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| Armed robbery at Ancient Olympia, birthplace of Olympics Ancient artefacts were stolen from the museum at Ancient Olympia,Greece, on Friday morning, by armed thieves who tied up a female security guard. Masked thieves wielding Kalashnikovs carried out an armed robbery at the Archaeological ... RSS Feed - Top Digital Journal News |
| «Incalculable» artefacts stolen from Ancient Olympia museum | BNN ... By BNN Armed robbers have stolen a number of artefacts from a Greek museum in Ancient Olympia, Greek officials say. The city is considered to be the birthplace of the Olympic Games. BNN-NEWS.COM |
| Greek authorities say major armed robbery carried out at Ancient ... Greek authorities say major armed robbery carried out at Ancient OlympiaMuseum - @AP. ... More: Masked thieves steal at least 60 artifacts fromGreece's Ancient Olympia museum, culture minister tenders resignation - @Ekathimerini ... Breaking news |
| Armed robbers steal 70 relics from museum in Olympia, Greece Updated at 10:32 a.m. ET: ATHENS, Greece -- Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze ... worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_.../10432276-armed-robbers-raid... |
| Greece: Robbers raid Olympia museum, steal artifacts - CNN. Ancient Olympia in Greece, pictured here in 2007 during a spate of brush fires, is the site of the original Olympic Games. STORY HIGHLIGHTS i2.cdn.turner.com/.../120217090302-olympia-greece-file-stor... |
| Greece: Robbers raid Olympia museum, steal artifacts - CNN.com Robbers broke into a museum in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics, tied and gagged a museum guard, and fled with stolen artifacts, Greekpolice said ... www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/world/europe/greece.../index.html |
| Ancient Olympia Antiquities Museum Is Robbed, Greece's Cultural ... ATHENS, Greece — Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../ancient-olympia-antiquities-muse... |
| Museum robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia – USATODAY.com Greek authorities say armed robbers have seized dozens of items on display at the museum in Ancient Olympia. www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-17/.../1 |
| Museum Robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia - ABC News Museum Robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia. By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece February 17, 2012 (AP). Two masked gunmen ... abcnews.go.com/.../museum-robbed-greeces-ancient-olympia-... |
| Thieves loot Greece's Ancient Olympia museum The mayor of Olympia has told me there is a direct link between today's burglary and the policy of cuts and Greece's economic crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17071934 |
| Thieves raid Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum | World news | The ... Armed robbers wearing hoods steal between 60 and 70 items of 'incalculable value' after breaking in and tying up female employee. www.guardian.co.uk/.../thieves-raid-ancient-olympia-museum |
| Greek culture minister resigns over ancient Olympia theft The Greek culture minister has resigned after more than 60 ancient objects including a gold ring from a museum in Olympia. www.montrealgazette.com/travel/6168788.bin |
| Dozens of Major Artifacts Stolen In Raid on Greece's Olympia Museum OLYMPIA, Greece - Up to 70 major artefacts, including bronze ornaments and a gold ring, were stolen from Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum in a brazen ... www.myfoxdc.com/.../dozens-of-major-artifacts-stolen-in-raid...        |
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