Looted ‘Nude Emperor’ Statue, Marble Head Returned to Turkey

A California antiquities dealer has surrendered to New York prosecutors a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor believed to have been looted from an archaeological site in Turkey, as first reported in the New York Times.Aaron Mendelsohn, 74, a Santa Monica philanthropist and former medical technology venture capitalist, purchased the headless bronze torso, known as Nude Emperor, from a now-defunct New York gallery in 2007. However, the Manhattan district attorney’s offi