The Manhattan district attorney’s office says coins, mosaics and vases are among the 266 recovered antiquities returned to Italy
Italy is celebrating the return of 266 antiquities that were looted and sold to museums and private collectors in the United StatesItaly celebrated the return Friday of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of euros that were looted and sold to U.S. museums and private collectors.
The art unit of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police said the owner of the Houston museum collection “spontaneously” gave back the items after investigators determined they had come from clandestine excavations of archaeological sites, according to a Carabinieri statement. The museum did not immediately respond when asked for comment Friday.
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