Returned because they bring bad luck. And the epilogue of a story of theft of ancient fragments in the excavations of Pompeii that dates back to 2005.
Their return anonymously goes through the owner of a travel agency in the Marian city. It was he who called the Carabinieri and gave them an envelope without any heading, but with a Canadian stamp, inside which were the five small stolen finds. Together with these, two letters in English in which it was explained how the fragments had been taken away during a visit to the remains of the city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, and how the thieving tourists had decided to return them because they brought bad luck. Together with the letters, therefore, two fragments of mosaic, a fragment taken from a wall of a domus and two fragments of amphorae. The military of the Arma have already delivered the material to the management of the Park
Article published on 10 October 2020 - 09:45
