Stolen relics go home to Egypt
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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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Gaza's tunnel smugglers are getting back to business after a forced break during the massive Gaza-Egypt border breach, despite renewed promises from Israel and Egypt to shut down the illegal trade.
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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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Just before boarding their US Airways flight from Salisbury, Md., back to Pittsburgh yesterday, Debbie and Rick Ireland spotted a piece of their luggage that had been lost since Dec. 26.
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Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday.
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Three 4,000-year-old marble and  alabaster seals looted from the Iraq National Museum and seized  by U.S. Customs from an American scholar were returned on  Tuesday to Iraq's U.N. ambassador.
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After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil.
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GURNA, Egypt  - Drowning out grumbles from tourist touts and descendants of tomb robbers, bulldozers moved into an Egyptian village near the Valley of the Kings on Saturday at the start of a plan to resettle 3,200 households for the sake of archaeology.
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A 4,000-year-old clay tablet authorities suspect was smuggled illegally from Iraq was pulled from eBay just minutes before the close of the online auction, authorities said Tuesday.
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The Federal Bureau of  Investigation unveiled a new unit on Wednesday to tackle the  multi-billion dollar market in stolen art and announced the  FBI's first recovery of artifacts looted from Iraq after the  U.S. invasion.
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An Ethiopian national treasure, the  ancient Axum Obelisk that was plundered by Italian fascist  invaders in 1937, will be returned by Rome in April, Italy's  Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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A gold mask dating back more than 1,000 years to a pre-Inca civilization in northern Peru will be returned home next year after being turned in to police by a collector in Italy, a museum official said on Friday.
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The relics of two early Christian saints have been returned to the seat of the Orthodox Church. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew escorted the relics of Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Gregory Nazianzen
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The J. Paul Getty Museum on Monday settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claims were illegally spirited out of the country.
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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.
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics, the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years ago.
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TRIPOLI, Libya Libya said Thursday that it had sent 1,000 Egyptian immigrants home after their expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in an effort to deter would-be asylum