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Thieves loot Greek museum at Olympic birthplace

Armed robbers have stolen several dozen artefacts from Greece’s Ancient Olympia Museum, which houses one of the most important collections of ancient Greek antiquities.

(REUTERS) Athens – Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos offered to resign, but his departure from the cabinet was not expected to destabilise the government, which is rushing to clinch an international bailout to ease the country’s debt crisis.

Police said armed thieves had broken into the one of the two museums at Olympia in southern Greece, overpowered a female security guard and stole some 70 bronze and pottery objects.

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