U.S. Sends Back More Than 900 Stolen Artifacts to Mali

A Houston division of Homeland Security Investigations said it sent back more than 900 artifacts believed to be stolen from Mali. Among them are artifacts that may date back to the Neolithic era.
Investigators said that they had become aware of the artifacts in 2009, when U.S. Customs halted a container that arrived in Houston. The container was shipped to the U.S. under the guise that it contained replica cultural artifacts. But agents turned suspicious when they realized that the objects held