The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts said Tuesday that the organization has returned 44 works of ancient art following an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security into the global trafficking of looted or stolen antiquities.
VMFA in a statement said it received a summons from Homeland Security and the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit about 28 ancient art objects in the museum’s collection that had been identified as possibly looted or stolen.
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