Italy displays marble head stolen during Second World War

ROME — Italy is putting on display a first century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during the Second World War from a southern Italian museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio acquired the sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius’ son Drusus in 2012.

Maj. Massimo Maresca of Italy’s national paramilitary police art squad said Friday the original working assumption had been that the piece had been stolen by Nazi troops and taken to Germany, the fate of many artifacts and artworks from countries occupied by Nazi Germany.