![]() ![]() The survey comes as museums and governments across Europe and the Americas have undergone a sea change in giving back cultural artifacts to countries and communities of origin. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less Italy, a long time victim of antiquities theft that has worked for decades to recover its treasures, is coming to terms with the fact that it, too has stolen loot in its museum collections: the relics of a brutal colonial empire that the country hasn't fully reckoned with. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less 14 of15 FILE - An Acropolis Museum staff places a marble male head on a frieze of the Acropolis museum, one of three fragments from the ancient Parthenon temple that have been returned to Greece by the Vatican museums, in Athens, Friday, March 24, 2023. Boris Heger/AP Show More Show Lessġ2 of15 13 of15 FILE - Acropolis Museum Director Nikolaos Stampolidis holds a marble head of a bearded man, one of three fragments from the ancient Parthenon temple that have been returned to Greece by the Vatican museums, in Athens, Friday, March 24, 2023. Plinio Lepri/AP Show More Show Less 11 of15 FILE - Thousands of Ethiopians march in Axum, Ethiopia, Monday April 25, 2005, to escort the third and final piece of the ancient Axum obelisk that was returned to Ethiopia from Italy after an almost 70-year dispute over a symbol of African civilization stolen by Italian troops as a war prize. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Lessĩ of15 10 of15 FILE - The 1,000-year-old obelisk of Axum, which was brought to Italy after Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's 1937 invasion of Ethiopia, stands upright in the heart of downtown Rome, Saturday, July 21, 2001. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Less 5 of15 Food products coming from former Italian colony 'Tripolitania', now Libya, are seen in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Lessģ of15 4 of15 Anthropologist Gaia Delpino looks at artifacts from to the Italian colonialist period in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. ![]() Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Less 2 of15 Andrea Viliani, director of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, poses for a photo, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. 1 of15 Busts of Italian military officers and high prelates from the Italian colonialist period are seen in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. ![]()
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