Illegally Trafficked 2,000-Year-Old Greek Goddess Statue Returned to Libya

With the aid of the British Museum, a 2,000-year-old funerary statue representing the Greek goddess Persephone will be returned to Libya, according to a report in the Guardian.
Thought to have been stolen from the ancient city of Cyrene in 2011 during the Libyan civil war, the statue was seized at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2013. Experts from the British Museum were called in to help identify the piece, and in 2015, gave testimony in court regarding the item’s provenance . The judg