Abruzzo, the Ministry of Culture must prove the authenticity of the Warrior of Capestrano, symbol of the Region. The TAR imposes it

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Abruzzo, the Ministry of Culture must prove the authenticity of the Warrior of Capestrano, symbol of the Region. The TAR imposes it

The Pescara Regional Administrative Court has once again proved Alessio Consort, the videomaker and director from Pescara, who wrote the docufilm The Warrior Seems Strange to Me in November 2023, in which he expressed doubts about the authenticity of the Capestrano Warrior. Not a simple testimony of pre-Roman statuary. The limestone sculpture, preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Abruzzo in Chieti, depicting “a warrior of the ancie…