ATHENS—While the unemployment rate of Greece rises past 21 percent, the crime rate is increasing as well, putting the museums of antiquity in many historic cities at great risk. On Friday morning, two masked gunmen stormed a small museum in Olympia in southern Greece and made off with dozens of objects up to 3,200 years old. The robbers stole sixty-five artifacts and tied up a forty-eight-year-old female security guard. The Washington Times reports that culture minister Pavlos Geroulanos submitted his resignation after the robbery, but it was unclear whether it had been accepted by prime minister Lucas Papademos. Yiannis Mavrikopoulos, head of the culture ministry museum and site guards’ union told the Washington Times “There are no funds for new guard hirings. There are 2,000 of us, and there should be 4,000, while many have been forced to take early retirement ahead of the new program of layoffs. We face terrible staff shortages. As a result, our monuments and sites don’t have optimum protection––even though guards are doing their very best to protect our heritage.”