The returned works, together with 60 items repatriated last year, are worth more than $80 million (or roughly €73.6 million) — but are just a drop in the bucket when it comes to artwork still ...

Italy is celebrating the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S. They were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums and collectors and recently recovered.

ROME — Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at $65 million, that were ...

In total, 266 artifacts—including Etruscan tile paintings from 440 B.C.E., a calyx-krater from 335 B.C.E., and ancient Roman coins buried in the late third or early fourth century C.E.—were ...

In November 2024, Italy also sent home 56 stolen Chinese artifacts, which added to the more than 700 artifacts that have been repatriated to China. Some of the Chinese artifacts date back to 206 BC.

It looked more like a museum exhibition of Italian art than a crime scene, but in the Central Institute for Restoration’s offices, located inside a former women’s prison in central Rome, some ...