Getty musem returns 'looted' treasure to Italy

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Getty musem returns 'looted' treasure to Italy

Treasures returned to homeland

An ancient Greek jar, an Etruscan candelabrum and a gravestone have been returned to Italy from the J. Paul Getty Museum in the US. Rocco Buttiglione, the Culture Minister, welcomed the allegedly stolen artefacts� recovery, saying that Italy was no longer an easy touch for looters. The artefacts� return coincides with the resumption in Rome next week of the trial of Marion True, the museum�s former antiquities curator. She faces charges of conspiring to traffic in looted antiquities.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1868505,00.html

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