An ancient bronze griffin's head returns today to the same museum in ancient Olympia from where it was stolen in the 1930s.
Caption Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimaera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur.The latter are said to have informed the lore and appearance of the former, but our ...
By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was ...