Fifteen Ancient Greek Artifacts Return Home From the Met
In short
- The Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced the repatriation of 15 artifacts.
- The objects were collectively valued at nearly $3 million.
- The pieces had been held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Ancient objects can spend decades far from where they were found. This return corrects that separation for 15 pieces. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office led the announcement, which the source describes as recent.
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15 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth Nearly $3 Million Are Finally Returning Home Ancient artifacts can spend decades far from where they were originally found. But for 15 Greek antiquities that were recently held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that journey is finally coming to an end. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office recently announced the repatriation of 15 artifacts collectively valued at nearly $3 million. The objects […] READ: 15 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth Nearly $3 Million Are Finally Returning Home
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Fifteen very old Greek objects are going back home. They were far away in a big museum in New York for a long time. Now they are travelling back to Greece. Talk about it: what would you like to see from long ago?
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