Italy celebrates the return of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases, ancient Roman coins, and mosaics worth tens of millions of dollars, looted and sold to US museums and private collectors
Italy has been on a decades-long campaign to hunt down antiquities that were looted by "tombaroli," or tomb raiders, and then sold to private collectors and museums in the US and beyond.The art unit of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police said the owner of the collection "spontaneously" gave back the items. / Photo: Reuters
Officials said on Friday that the returned items include artefacts recently seized in New York from a storage unit belonging to British antiquities dealer Robin Symes. The art unit of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police said the owner of the 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 said a collector approached the museum in 2022 about making a gift of the artefacts, but the museum curator directed the collector to the Italian culture minister,"who alerted the museum that Italy was claiming the objects."
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