Artifact
Feb 9 2008, AP

Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York’s archives, a state official said Saturday.The online...

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The Iraqi Minister of tourism and archaeology, Mohammed Abbas al-Uraibi, center, points to an ancient artifact as it is taken out of a protective casing in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 3, 2008. A historical artifact that had been looted from an...