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Lydian Hoard: More Returns to Türkiye
Source: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned two more pieces of silver from the Lydia...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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The Fire of Hephaistos exhibition included "seven bronzes ... that have been linked to the Bubon cache of imperial statues" (p. 1...
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We join you in sending our congratulations and well-wishes to the Greeks on this magnificent achievement. The completion of the museum deals a devastating blow to any argument that those holding parts or whole objects, acquired under dubious circumstances, are doing so for the sake of protecting the objects because the legitimate owners have no adequate place to house them.
Kwame Opoku
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