US Embassy returns 9 trafficked cultural antiquities to Jordan
US Embassy returns 9 trafficked cultural antiquities to Jordan
AMMAN — The US Embassy returned nine trafficked cultural antiquities to Jordan from the United States during an official handover ceremony at the Department of Antiquities (DoA) in Amman on Tuesday.
The artifacts were illegally “smuggled” from Jordan and obtained by an antiquities collector in the US, according to a US Embassy statement.
The antiquities initially were recovered from the New York-based collector by the US Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations New York Field Office and the New York District Attorney’s Office, with robust cooperation by the Jordanian DoA, the statement said.
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