"Report: Antique carpets and rugs missing from Turkish museum
The Associated Press
Published: October 2, 2006
ANKARA, Turkey More than 70 antique carpets and rugs have gone missing from the same museum in western Turkey where a 6th century B.C. treasure of King Croesus was stolen and replaced with a fake, Turkey's state-owned news agency reported Monday.
The Anatolia news agency said officials going through Usak museum's storehouse, could not find 71 of the 210 antique carpets and kilims, or oriental rugs, which had been removed from mosques around the province and taken to the museum for safekeeping.
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