CANADIAN RETURNS STOLEN POMPEII RELIC AFTER 50 YEARS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 31, 2014, 14:46

A woman from Canada has handed back a piece of ruins from the ancient city of Pompeii more than 50 years after she first took it.

The woman picked up a small decoration, which was part of a theatre entrance, during her honeymoon in Italy.

She put it in her bag and took it back with her to Montreal.

Pompeii is one of Italy's most visited sites. A sudden eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD buried and largely preserved the town under ash.

The woman - who has not been named - kept it with her for half a century but clearly her actions nagged away at her. So this month she travelled back to Italy to hand back the fragment.

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