1.   But like an ancient vase, a dispute over archeology lies below the surface, and it is potentially explosive.

2.   Confronted with a tiny damaged figure of an Etruscan warrior, one particularly ingenious forger used part of an ancient vase to create a new shield for the figure.

3.   For example, many ancient Greek vases of the seventh through fifth centuries B.C. depict griffins.

4.   Relieve all your pent-up aggression by smashing windows, breaking ancient vases and helping headstones disintegrate.

5.   The dancers seem to have slipped off ancient Greek vases, in part because of their costumes, painted body stockings by Angelina Avallone and headpieces by Eric Winterling.

6.   Pieces of ancient vases and figurines which were excavated in southern Italy have returned home after a California museum and a Swiss university agreed to let their collections go.

7.   Amid the stillness and silence of a museum exhibition room, an ancient vase stands in its housing, unable to reveal the secrets of its rich past.

8.   Three of four ancient Greek vases stolen from the Vatican Museums in June have been recovered by an Italian police art theft squad, the Vatican said Wednesday.