$20 Million Worth of Looted Art Returns to Italy From the U.S.
The authorities of the two countries have worked together to round up statues, vases and bronzes, some of which had appeared in American museums.
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The authorities of the two countries have worked together to round up statues, vases and bronzes, some of which had appeared in American museums.
As the object, a carved spoon, was handed back at a ceremony in Bethlehem, officials said it was the first time the United States had repatriated an antiquity to the Palestinian government.
Three statues were returned to Italy after the J. Paul Getty Museum discovered they had been looted. They will be displayed temporarily in Rome before heading to Taranto, Italy, their permanent home.
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A beautifully preserved grouping of three life-size terra-cotta figures dating to 300 B.C. that was seized from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angele