BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state news agency says the country has received a trio of ancient artifacts looted from the country during its civil war and recovered recently by New York authorities. It was discovered by an eagle-eyed curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last year, where it had been on loan from a collector. Scores of antiquities were looted from Lebanon during its 1975-1990 Civil War. The Manhattan district attorney’s office formed an antiquities trafficking unit last year to repatriate stolen artifacts. The National Museum in Beirut will display the artifacts in February.

Source: National Post January 12, 2018 17:11 UTC