200 Looted Artifacts Seized from Major U.S. Museums Repatriated to Italy

A trove of antiquities confiscated from major museums and private collections across the U.S., and valued at a combined $10 million, have been repatriated to Italy, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday. Among the works seized were a 2,500-year-old ceramic vessel from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; nearly a hundred Greco-Roman artifacts valued at $2 million from Fordham University in the Bronx; and a terracotta goddess from the New York-based Merrin Gallery. 150 ar