US returns haul of stolen artefacts to Italy
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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.Several of the mosaics are worth tens of millions of euros. Most artefacts had been stolen in the 1990s, then sold through a series of dealers with one selection apparently being offered to the Menil Collection, a museum in Houston, Texas., but a spokesperson for the museum denied this and said they had never been a part of the collection.
The ministry said the owner of the collection "spontaneously" returned the items after police found that they had come from illegal excavations of archaeological sites.
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