The woman wrote, “I wanted to buy a piece of history, which was“ young and dumb ”at the time.
After returning to Canada, she said, she has suffered from breast cancer, resulting in a double mastectomy, and her family is also in financial trouble.
Pompeii is one of the most famous archeological sites in the world.
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“I don’t think we should ever move forward in life,” he wrote, blaming bad luck on the tiles.
He wrote, “I took a piece of history captured at one time, with a lot of negative energy associated with it.” “People died so horribly and I took the tiles out of that kind of destruction.”
AD AD Mount Vesuvius erupted nearby, in which Pompeii was buried with hot stones, volcanic ash, and poison gas.
The woman told him how she gave another tile to a friend and told him that she had decided to return her artwork, but said she did not know if that friend would return it.
He wrote, “We are good people and now I don’t want to give this curse to my family, my children or myself.” “Please forgive my careless act that I did years ago.”
Over the years, hundreds of visitors have returned stolen small artefacts such as mosaic tiles and pieces of plaster during a visit to Pompeii, according to a park spokesman.
Lawyers told CNN. The items were returned with letters from visitors claiming the artists “only get bad luck”.
A selection of letters and returning artifacts are on display at the Pompeii Antiquarium, he noted, adding that while the value of the artifacts was not significant, the letters were interesting from an anthropological perspective.
Pompeii is one of the world’s most famous historical sites, and archaeologists have continued to work on the remains.
The building, one of Pompei’s most famous sites, was closed to visitors after it was damaged by an earthquake in 1980, but has now reopened as part of the Greater Pompeii Project, launched in 2014 to protect the ancient city.
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