After string of adventures, ancient gold ring back in Greece

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring is back in Greece after a string of adventures. The ring was stolen from an Aegean Sea island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum. It was the latest in a series of coups by Greek authorities seeking the return of works plundered from the antiquities-rich country. The Greek culture ministry said Friday (May 20, 2022) that the gold Mycenaean-era ring from Rhodes, decorated with two facing sphinxes, was returned by the Nobel Foundation. The foundation had received it as a bequest and had given it to a museum in Stockholm before realizing its importance to Greece.