"Stealing beauty
Many of our great antiquities may once have been looted. Roger Atwood offers a guided tour of artworks with potentially dubious origins
Thursday February 2, 2006
The Guardian
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Few museums have faced more scrutiny over acquisitions than New York's grand temple of art. The Turkish government sued over a stash of 360 artefacts looted from tombs in central Anatolia in 1966 which turned up in the Met. The Met settled out of court in 1993 and the artefacts were returned to Turkey, with the museum admitting no wrongdoing but acknowledging that it knew the pieces had been illegally excavated."
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