The
Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Communications and Works announces that
a ceremony will take place today, at the Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop
Makarios III Foundation, to mark the repatriation of the 173 ecclesiastical
cultural treasures which were stolen from the occupied areas of the Republic of
Cyprus.
It constitutes the largest number of cultural objects ever repatriated
in Cyprus and the repatriation was achieved after a long legal battle in the
Regional Court of Munich. 
