Calls for the repatriation of priceless treasures have intensified after 2000 items vanished from the museum.
argued that the world-renowned museum has failed to take good care of "cultural property belonging to other countries".
The museum's Chinese collection includes a large range of paintings, prints, jade, bronzes and ceramics. Greece has renewed calls for the museum to give back the Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Sculptures, and Nigerian officials are agitating for return of the Benin Bronzes taken from the Benin kingdom which now lies within its territory.The Benin Bronzes are sculptures and plaques looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin — now southern Nigeria, not the modern nation of Benin — by British soldiers in 1897.
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