After 50 years, tourist repents and returns mosaic tiles to Paestum

Fifty years ago a tourist visited the Paestum excavations and enclosed in a box some tiles from a mosaic found at the archaeological site.

Recently a TV program dedicated to Paestum awakened the guilt of the man, who searched through the boxes for those tiles and sent them along with a note to the director of the Paestum Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

The note reads, “I dug through the boxes and found the stones, which I return to you. Please accept my apologies for my appalling behavior.”

The man lives in Washington state and his visit dates back to the 1970s.

Source: Ansa

After 50 years, tourist repents and returns mosaic tiles to Paestum

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