U.S. returns stolen pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru
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The United States returned ancient pottery, gold jewelry, burial shrouds and hundreds of other stolen pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru on Wednesday after they were seized in a Florida smuggling investigation.
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An artifact stolen from an Egyptian temple in 1990 and held by Christie's auction house in New York for the last two years arrived in Egypt on Friday, an airport official said.
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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 said.
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Italy and the Princeton University Art Museum have reached a deal to return some artifacts Rome says were smuggled out of the country, the latest chapter in Italy's campaign to crack down on the illegal antiquities market.
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A state archivist was charged with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, European explorers brought back home gold cloaks of Polynesian chiefs, feather &quot;god heads&quot; and wood temple figures from the islands of the eastern Pacific.
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A ring which got 200 people from the Middle East into the US via Peru  has been smashed, officials say.
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An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, explorers said on Tuesday.
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Peru looks to cash in soon after explaining mystery illness.
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The findings about Peru are evidence that some farming developed in parts of the Americas nearly as early as in the Middle East, considered the birthplace of agriculture.
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Letter: Reporter was basically receiving stolen property.
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The International Council of Museums published a &quot;black list&quot; of archaeological treasures illegally smuggled out of Afghanistan, in a bid to stifle trade in the stolen antiquities.
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More than 600 Egyptian antiquities flew back to Egypt from the UK four years after they were stolen.
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A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
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French customs officials seize more than 650 smuggled artefacts, some up to one million years old.
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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By Eduardo Orozco LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian journalist seized by mobof armed villagers in a remote Andean jungle, was released onThursday four days after he was abducted, beaten and tied to apost for supporting a copper mining project, police said.