Parthenon Artifacts Returned to Greece from Vatican and British Museum.

The Vatican has returned three fragments of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece, including a chunk of a horse's head, a bearded man, and the head of a boy. Greece hopes the move will encourage other institutions holding Parthenon sculptures to return them. About 50% of the Parthenon's original sculptures have survived, and almost half of them are in the British Museum. The marbles had been in the papal collection and Vatican Museums for centuries, but Greece has been trying to recover them since the beginning of the 20th century.