Met Museum Repatriates Five Pieces of Looted Cretan Armor to Greece

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York repatriated five pieces of ancient Cretan armor to Greece. The pieces were connected to a large-scale illegal excavation that occurred more than 60 years ago.The artifacts include two bronze helmets and three bronze mitrai, or protective guards worn around the lower abdomen, dating to the late seventh century BCE. Of the three mitrai, one is decorated with horses, another with winged horses, and the third with sphinxes, while two of the three contain an