The marble head of a young man, a fragment from the 2,500-year-old sculptured decoration of the Parthenon Temple on the ancient Acropolis, is displayed during a media presentation at the new Acropolis Museum in Greece’s capital Athens on Nov. 5, 2008. AP FILE PHOTO
The marble head of a young man, a fragment from the 2,500-year-old sculptured decoration of the Parthenon Temple on the ancient Acropolis, is displayed during a media presentation at the new Acropolis Museum in Greece's capital Athens on Nov. 5, 2008. AP FILE PHOTO
ROME: The Vatican and Greece on Tuesday finalized a deal for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution.
