After Legal Odyssey, Homecoming Show for Looted Antiquities
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âNostoi: Recovered Masterpiecesâ does not pull its punches in explaining how objects made their way abroad: They were looted from Italian archaeological sites.
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Greece vowed Thursday to reclaim the country's plundered heritage after two sculptures were returned by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Monday that it would return to Greece an ancient gold wreath and a marble bust that Greece claims were illegally spirited out of the country.Comment
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A statue has become a blazing symbol of Italyâs legal and moral battle against foreign museums and private collectors.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced it would cede only some of the antiquities that Italy says were looted from its soil.
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Rosie Goldsmith reports from Greece which has begun to fight hard to save its antiquities and archaeological sites from decay and looting.
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An ancient stone coffin and sculpture of a lion's head have been returned to Greece after being handed over by private owners in the United States, the Culture Ministry said Wednesday.
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Italy told the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday it must return all disputed art works in its collection and said the era when respected museums could get away with displaying looted antiquities was over.
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Peru celebrated the return Friday of a prized 1,300-year-old embossed gold headdress looted from an ancient tomb nearly 20 years ago.
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From floating houses to city seals on the loose, Floridians salvage stories from debris.
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The Jewish Claims Conference joined with Polish restitution organizations Wednesday to appeal for the return of private property seized in the country during World War II and under Communist rule.
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With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors around the world.
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THE skeletal remains of up to 18 Aborigines, stolen by a Swedish explorer 90 years ago, will be returned to Australia this month in a landmark repatriation agreement.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist has said.
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After 26 years, treasures of Pharaoh Tutankhamun are returning to America. The boy king's artifacts anchor a new museum tour of objects from ancient Egypt's "golden age."
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Parting with treasured books can be hard enough, but then there is the problem of what to do with them.
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A 700-year-old icon that had been stolen in August was returned Sunday to a monastery in southern Greece in a ceremony attended by hundreds of worshippers.