Fight over 1,000-year-old Chinese mummy hits Dutch court

A Dutch court Friday will hear arguments involving ownership of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk in a case brought against a local collector by Chinese villagers who claim their ancestor was stolen.The human-sized sitting Buddha statue called the “Zhanggong Patriarch,” disappeared from a temple in Yangchun 
in late 1995 after being worshipped for centuries [Credit: Reuters]The small eastern Chinese village of Yangchun will square...
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