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Netherlands returns more than 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria

The Netherlands will return to Nigeria a total of 113 Benin bronzes in Dutch state collections. This decision was made by Minister of Education, Culture and Science Eppo Bruins: these are the objects from the ancient Kingdom of Benin (now part of pre...
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US returns 107 stolen archaeological artifacts to Italy

The United States will return as many as 107 ancient artifacts toItaly : this was announced in these hours by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. The total value of the artifacts amounts to 1.2 million euros: these objects were recovered a...
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The Metropolitan Museum of New York will return a valuable bronze griffin to Greece

The Metropolitan Museum in New York is preparing to return a valuable bronze griffin head from the 7th century B.C.E. to Greece : this was announced yesterday at a ceremony held at the American museum, where the Greek minister of culture, Lina Mendon...
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But could Italy ask France to return the works requisitioned by Napoleon?

CouldItaly demand from France the return of all the works requisitioned during the Napoleonic spoliations that did not come back after the fall of Napoleon and that are still kept in French museums? This is a question that is often asked when one he...
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The Getty Museum returns a rare bronze burial bed from 530 BC to Turkey.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned to Turkey a valuable and rare kline, a bronze burial bed , that illegally left the country in the early 1980s. The object, datable to 530 B.C., was purchased by the Getty in 1982 from a Swiss art d...
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Netherlands returns 288 objects and artworks to Indonesia

The Netherlands returns toIndonesia 288 objects from public collections that were brought to Europe during colonial times. "Unfairly," the Dutch government specifies: these are artifacts and works of art deemed to be of cultural interest to Indonesia...
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De Gasperi's grandson returns to Greece a vase the country gave to the statesman

Returning to Greece is an important 5th-century B.C. Attic vase that was given to Alcide De Gasperi during an official visit to Athens between Jan. 9 and 10, 1953. De Gasperi, then prime minister, obtained the vase as a gift to his Greek counterpart,...
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Netherlands returns three illegally taken artifacts to Egypt

The Netherlands in recent days returned toEgypt three archaeological artifacts that had been illegally exported from the African country. Handing over the three objects to the Egyptian ambassador to the Netherlands, Hatem Elsayed Mohamed Kamaleldin, ...
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