Enrico Tosti-Croce long believed the piece of marble his father brought back from the Acropolis of Athens in the 1930s was from the Parthenon, but experts say it's part of the Hekatompedon, which was built a century earlier.

In January 2025, Enrico Tosti-Croce reached out to the Greek Embassy in Chile about a small piece of marble sitting on his coat rack. His father had taken the marble while visiting the Acropolis of Athens in the 1930s, and he wanted to return it.

Tosti-Croce believed that the artifact was a piece of the Parthenon, but after experts analyzed it, they determined that it was likely from the Hekatompedon — a temple on the Acropolis that’s even older than the Parthenon. Now, Tosti-Croce is being applauded for handing over the 2,500-year-old relic.

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