Carabinieri reunites Pompeii with long-lost lovers

(ANSA)

An erotic ancient Roman mosaic stolen in 1944 by a Wehrmacht officer (a commissioned officer in the German armed forces) and given to a German citizen was returned to Pompeii in July, ANSA reported. The German army captain, who was responsible for the military supply chain in Italy during World War II, handed over the mosaic of a pair of lovers to the German citizen, whose family returned it thanks to the work of the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Rome. The mosaic dates between the mid-last century B.C. and the 1st century A.D. The heirs of the last owner contacted the Carabinieri of the TPC Unit in Rome.

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