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US Repatriates Ancient Artifacts to Egypt, Among Them Gold Masks
Egypt has received 25 ancient artifacts from the US after a three-year legal and diplomatic effort involving U.S. authorities ...
Museum facilitates return of Mayan artifact from Chicago philanthropist's collection
A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...
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Pilsen museum facilitates return of Mayan artifact from Chicago philanthropist's collection
A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...
Bone fragments, caskets: Culture ministry moves to block auction of Buddha relics in Hong Kong
The ministry issued a legal notice to Sotheby’s and directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to request intervention ...
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Top 10 countries of origin in the British Museum and their most iconic artifacts
The Greek collection is at the center of long-standing repatriation ... Countries like Egypt, Greece, and India have repeatedly requested the return of specific artifacts, arguing they were ...
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Long-lost Libyan statue unearthed at Cleveland Museum of Art, now heading home
CLEVELAND — A 22-inch Roman Egyptian statue that stood quietly ... is now at the center of an international and cultural repatriation. Titled Statue of a Man, the piece was donated to the ...
Egypt recovers trove of smuggled ancient artifacts from the US, officials say
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...
U.S. returns parts of queen's temple, ancient gold coin and other rare smuggled artifacts to Egypt, officials say
The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen ...