March 3, 2009
Efforts made to retrieve disputed artefacts
As the issues of repatriation & reunification of cultural property become more widely known, many countries are going to ever greater lengths to secure return of their artefacts.
From:
Star Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)
Posted on Tue, Mar. 03, 2009
Countries go to greater lengths to get looted treasures back
By TIM JOHNSON and JULIE SELL
McClatchy NewspapersBEIJING — China fumes over the foreign auction of its looted relics. Cambodia sputters over pieces of an ancient temple on sale on eBay. Egypt aches for its stolen treasures that sit in foreign museums, including the indescribably splendid bust of Nefertiti. Italy and Greece plead for the return of countless antiquities.
Countries with rich architectural heritages demand their patrimony back — and they are going to ever-greater lengths to get it.
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