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Roman Inscription Missing Since 1943 and Rediscovered in the U.S. Returned to the Civitavecchia Museum

The National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia is preparing to welcome an artifact of extraordinary historical, documentary, and symbolic value. To mark the museum’s reopening, scheduled for September 18 following a major renovation and redesign...
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The Metropolitan Museum is returning more than 45 artifacts that were illegally removed to Italy

The District Attorney of Manhattan ( New York, United States), Alvin L. Bragg Jr., announced the return of 59 cultural artifacts to their respective countries of origin— Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia—following three separate official ceremonies that mar...
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Greece returns 48 archaeological finds to Cyprus

Greece returned 48 archaeological artifacts to Cyprus today.The meeting marking the handover of the valuable material was held today at the Cyprus Museum, on the occasion of the informal Council of Culture Ministers of the European Union in Nicosia, ...
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France passes law on the restitution of works stolen in colonial times

France is taking a significant step in the long and complex journey of restitution of cultural property stolen during the colonial era. On the night of April 12-13, the Assemblée nationale unanimously approved a bill concerning the restitutio...
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Zurich returns eleven works from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria

The city of Zurich has decided to transfer to the Federal Republic of Nigeria the ownership of eleven works from the Kingdom of Benin that are stored at the Museum Rietberg. The decision, formalized last Friday, March 20, is a significant step in the...
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Who really owns the destroyed or stolen works? For a hypothesis of "cultural hospitality"

To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the doubt that cr...
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Bologna, a rare Etruscan bronze stolen in 1963 returned to the Archaeological Museum

An important piece ofEtruscan art returns to Bologna's public collections. Yesterday, in the Conference Room of Bologna's Museo Civico Archeologico, the commander of the Nucleo Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale of Bologna, Carmelo Carraffa, off...
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USA, Smithsonian returns three Cambodian sculptures to their country of origin

The Smithsonian 's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington , U.S., has announced the return of three Cambodian sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia, marking the museum's first repatriation under the "Shared Management and Ethical Return Policy" a...
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