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Nov 19 2008, AP

The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed Wednesday to return 14 ancient treasures ranging from Etruscan jewelry to a Medieval cross that authorities say were looted or stolen from Italy.

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A visitor looks at a 2000-year-old, 29-foot-long temple decoration during a preview of an Etruscan exhibit at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum in Dallas, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. It is one of several hundred objects making their first...