After displaying it for over 50 years, Denmark’s Glyptotek Art Museum announced on Nov. 26 that it will repatriate the bronze head of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to Türkiye The statue, originally from the ancient city of Boubon in Burdur, was illegally
Two 17th-century paintings were recently donated to the Louvre Museum after being returned to their owners. Floris van Schooten’s Still-Life with Ham and Peter Binoit’s Food, Fruit and Glass on a Table were for decades part of the Louvre’s Nordic painting collection,
US has returned 600 antiquities to Italy, valued collectively at $65 million, that were looted years ago and kept among museums, galleries, and private collections. The artifacts includes ancient gold coins, mosaics, manuscripts, and bronze statues, all recovered through an extensive criminal
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned a life-sized bronze head of a young man to Türkiye. The bronze head was illegally excavated, it was reported. The head had been part of the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa
Ukraine’s Kherson Art Museum has recently identified 100 looted artworks from its collection by Russian forces, with the assistance of a “propaganda video” filmed in a Crimean museum. In a social media statement, the museum highlighted how looters inadvertently document their crimes,
A regulatory office is currently investigating the British Museum following allegations that the institution has maintained excessive secrecy regarding 11 Ethiopian artifacts in its collection, which were looted by soldiers in 1868. These artifacts consist of sacred wood and stone altar tablets
Two artworks by the Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele, looted by the Nazis during World War II, have been restituted to the descendants of the family that originally owned them. The return of the pieces, “Portrait of a Man” (1917) and “Girl
A total of 30 artifacts, including a Corinthian helmet and a marble statue of Aphrodite, were returned by the United States to Greece in a ceremony on December 15. The antiquities—which also include breastplates, a Byzantine silver plate, and a bronze chariot
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