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Well-Preserved 3,700-Year-Old Bronze Age Brain And Skin Remains Found In Turkey
During an excavation of the Tavşanlı Mound in western Turkey, archaeologists uncovered the startlingly well-preserved remains ...
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Ancient 'Hunger Games'? Brutal youth sacrifice rituals found in Bronze Age Turkey
Recent excavations at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement dating to around 3300 BCE, uncovered royal burial tombs that contained burial items and evidence of human sacrifice. Researchers ...
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A Looted Bronze Statue That May Depict Marcus Aurelius Is Returning to Turkey
Cleveland Museum of Art A headless bronze statue that may depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius will be repatriated to Turkey after an investigation determined that it had been ...
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Cleveland Museum of Art will return looted Greco-Roman bronze to Turkey
The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless Greco-Roman bronze statue that was pillaged from the ancient city of Bubon in south-central Turkey. The larger-than-life statue of a draped male ...
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Cleveland Museum to Return Prized Bronze Thought Looted From Turkey
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham ...
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A Danish museum agrees to return a bronze sculpture looted from Turkey
The bronze head of a Roman emperor is on its way back to Turkey. A Danish museum has agreed to return the looted artifact as NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports. ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: The bronze head ...
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Danish Museum Returns Bronze Head of Roman Emperor to Turkey
In 1979, the Glyptotek, the Copenhagen museum that houses the Carlsberg brewing dynasty’s collection, arranged for the loan of a bronze torso ... have been returned to Turkey and the previous ...