The 60 pieces of art and artifacts include a fresco of Hercules and a drinking chalice some 2,600 years old.
A Pompeiian style fresco from Herculaneum titled"Young Hercules and the snake" is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, January 23, 2023. A fresco depicting Hercules and originally from Herculaneum, a city destroyed along with Pompeii by the 79 A.D.
A marble head depicting Athena, dated to the second century B.C., is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, January 23, 2023.The fresco, done in the classic style of Pompeiian art, depicts Hercules as a child strangling a snake.
A bronze male bust, dated between the first century B.C. and the first century A.C. is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts that had been stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, January 23, 2023. Among those at Monday's presentation was Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, chief of that office's unit combatting illicit trafficking in antiquities.
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