Thursday, October 29, 2009

U.S. Customs Announces Recovery of Ancient Artifacts from Italy Just in Time for CPAC Hearing

U.S. Customs has announced the recovery of two ancient vases that Customs says were illegally shipped from Italy. See
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33099/us-customs-recovers-ancient-artifacts-looted-from-italy/

Cynics will wonder whether the announcement was timed to coincide with CPAC's upcoming Nov. 13th review of the current MOU with Italy.

In any event, it will be interesting to see if more details about the seizure comes out at that hearing.

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