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    After centuries of cultural theft, why more nations are returning looted artifacts

    Mar 13, 2018 3 minutes

    In June 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned to Cambodia two 10th-century sandstone statues, originally looted in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge.

    In July 2017, craft company Hobby Lobby returned to Iraq 5,500 artifacts, including ancient cuneiform clay tablets, illegally smuggled out of the country in 2009 and camouflaged as tiles.

    In October 2017, France returned to Egypt eight 3,000-year-old statuettes illegally smuggled out of the

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