The items were all stolen from Italy in the late 1990s and some were worth millions of euros.

The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I doubt that will ever happen, but artifacts in museums can absolutely be given back to indigenous nations without much effort on the museum’s part. They just don’t want to.