Greek police have solved a museum robbery that took
place in February after a sting operation netted three suspects and
recovered dozens of archaeological artefacts.
The three Greek men were arrested at a hotel in the city of Patras
after one of them tried to sell a Bronze Age gold ring for 300,000 euros
(£243,000) to an undercover officer posing as a potential buyer.Officers were then dispatched to a village near Olympia, where they found the remaining artefacts buried inside a sack in a field.
"The discovery and arrest of the perpetrators of the robbery and the recovery of the stolen items are a great success," Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras said in a statement.
The stolen treasures included a 3,300-year-old gold ring, a bronze statuette of a victorious athlete, a 2,400-year-old oil jar, clay lamps, bronze tripods and miniature chariot wheels, as well as dozens of idols of charioteers, horses and bulls.
