NEW YORK, NEW YORK,, November 17, 2024 (The Hindu): A sandstone sculpture looted from Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s and another looted from Rajasthan in the 1960s are among the over 1,400 antiquities collectively valued at $10 million that the U.S. recently returned to India. More than 600 more antiquities looted from India are scheduled to be repatriated in the coming months. These antiquities were recovered under several ongoing investigations into criminal trafficking networks, including those of alleged antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor and convicted trafficker Nancy Wiener, the statement added. It remained on display at the Met, until it was seized by the Antiquities Traffic Unit (ATU) in 2023. The second sculpture, Tanesar Mother Goddess, carved from green-gray schist, was looted from a village of Tanesara-Mahadeva in Rajasthan.

Source: The Hindu November 18, 2024 02:45 UTC