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A gold bowl looted from Nimrud, Iraq. Photo: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
A gold bowl looted from Nimrud, Iraq. Photo: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
Chastised US tycoon returns $70m of looted antiquities from Iraq, Lebanon and beyond
Michael Steinhardt was forced to hand over a collection that authorities said had been plundered and illegally smuggled out of 11 countries