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It’s another public relations debacle for the nation’s museum industry, already tarred by reports that top institutions knowingly dealt in looted Italian artifacts.
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Photographers take pictures of pre-Columbian artifacts that were stolen and recently recovered at a press conference in Mexico City, Friday, June 20, 2008. Hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts were returned to Mexico after being seized from smugglers in...
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