Ancient artifacts that were discovered and transported from Greece to Germany during the second world war will be returning to Greece.

10,600 sherds (pottery fragments), stone artifacts, flint and obsidian blades, as well as osteological material from excavation activities which took place between June and December of 1941 by the Nazi German occupation troops, are about to make their way back to where they belong.

According to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, held yesterday at the museum Pfahlbau in the city Ounteroulntingken of Baden-Württemberg, the official Ancient artifacts return ceremony took place in the presence of the General Secretary of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Jürgen Walter, the Consul General of Greece in Stuttgart, Panagiotis Partsou, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Maria Legends-Andreadaki, the director of the German museum and university professor the Timpingken Guenther Shebelle, local MPs, journalists and archaeologists.

The Ancient artifacts will initially be transferred to the National Archaeological Museum.