stunning piece portrays the demigod Hercules the upper half of the statue of weary Hercules, which was purchased by the Museum of fine arts, Boston in 1982, is to be returned to his native Turkey.After an ongoing dispute, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs meet the bust with its bottom in the Antalya Museum half this year.
The announcement is seen as a victory for Turkey, which tries to recover artifacts that believed to have been looted over the years.
In his opinion the complete statue will return to Boston in a short-term loan.
The top half of the sculpture of tired demigod Hercules was acquired in 1981 to a German, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and final dealer New York art collecter Leon Levy.
A year later, it was exhibited at the Museum of the U.S. before entering information storage in 2007.
Turkish archaeologists were convinced the bust had been looted and taken from the country. At the same time, the lower half of the statue was discovered in 1980 at Perga in South Turkey.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs always denied that was the case, insisting on the bust could have been found "at any time since the Italian Renaissance".
For the daily Times, Katherine Getchell of the Boston Museum, said: "It is only in the last couple of years has presented with photos and other evidence of looting of the site".
This is the latest victory for the campaign of Turkey tracing the lost age.
In may, the Pergamon Museum in Germany agreed to return a Hittite Sphinx after the Turkish culture Minister threatened to ban German archaeologists in excavations in the country.
Ertugrul Gunay told the times that the country intends to "fight in the same way for all our devices".
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