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Robbery in Greek Ancient Olympia museum

The armed thieves entered the Museum at 07:30 LT and demanded various objects to hand them over. When the woman empoyee refused, she was tied up and gagged.

Thieves smashed the display windows using hammers and seized 60-70 statuettes but the values of the objects stolen has not been estimated yet.

The Archaeological Museum of Olympia, one of the most important museums in Greece, presents the long history of the most celebrated sanctuary of antiquity, the sanctuary of Zeus, father of both gods and men, where the Olympic games were born.

The museum's permanent exhibition contains finds from the excavations in the sacred precinct of the Altis dating from prehistoric times to the Early Christian period.

Among the many precious exhibits the sculpture collection, for which the museum is most famous, the bronze collection, the richest collection of its type in the world, and the large terracottas collection, are especially noteworthy.

The museum building comprises exhibition rooms, auxiliary spaces and storerooms. The vestibule and twelve exhibition rooms contain objects excavated in the Altis.

Hundreds of thousands visit Olympia - the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games - every year.

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