Reunited: Stolen art goes home, and why lonely habitats need company
by Nick Roll
May 04, 2023
4 minutes
1. United States
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York has secured the return of more than 950 stolen antiquities in the past year. More than $160 million worth of art and artifacts have been returned to 17 countries, from Cambodia and Pakistan to Greece and Italy.
At a March repatriation ceremony for 12 Turkish antiquities, the artifacts included a bronze of a Roman emperor that was looted from an archaeological site in the 1960s, smuggled to Europe, loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 2011 landed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The returns come
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