The Cleveland Museum of Art is set to return a 2,200-year-old statue to Libya
A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic dynasty.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to return a Ptolemaic statue it has had since 1991 believed to have been looted from the Ptolemais Museum in Libya during World War II.
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Experts say the Ptolemaic figure was taken from a Libyan museum during World War II.
The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"