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The Latest Breaking News from Vatican Museums

Vatican unveils last of restored Raphael Rooms after 10-year cleaning that yielded new discoveries

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2025

The Vatican broadens public access to an ancient Roman necropolis

In the past, tours of the ancient burial site were generally only granted to approved academics, students and other specialists.

WEKU · Nov 18, 2023

Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules statue struck by lightning

Vatican Museum restorers are working to remove centuries of grime from the largest known bronze statue of the ancient world: the gilded Hercules Mastai Righetti

The Independent UK · May 13, 2023

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Vatican returns Parthenon sculpture fragments to Greece, amid calls for UK to follow

A representative of the Greek Orthodox Church urged other countries to ‘imitate’ the ‘historic’ gesture

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2023

Vatican, Greece ink deal for 'donation' of Parthenon Marbles

The Vatican and Greece are finalizing a deal for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2023

Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.

Reuters · Dec 16, 2022

Pope returns Greece's Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod

Pope Francis has decided to give back to Greece the three fragments of Parthenon marbles that the Vatican Museums have held for centuries

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

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Vatican says they're gifts; Indigenous groups want them back

Restitution of Indigenous and colonial-era artifacts is one of the many agenda items awaiting Pope Francis on his trip to Canada, which begins Sunday

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

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