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.

  • @comrade19
    56•1 year ago

    BBC trying to ignore the elephant in the room with all of their stolen artefacts

      • @kirua
        0•1 year ago

        Recycling material is old

    • @[email protected]
      18•1 year ago

      Italy wouldn’t want to start that conversation - the city of Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt.

      • VanillaGorilla
        9•1 year ago

        The house I’m living in in Germany is built on top of a Roman pottery district. I hope they don’t want that one back.

        • Humanius
          6•1 year ago

          Difference is that those Egyptian obelisks were not built in modern day Italy by the Egyptians, but the Roman pottery district was built in modern day Germany by the Romans

          A lot of the obelisks in European cities were stolen from Egypt

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      The art unit of Italy’s police force found the items had been looted and sold to US museums and private collectors in the 1990s.

      Kind of different, a lot of the same.