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A television investigation by the French channel TF1 revealed this week that some stolen Libyan antiquities that had been sold around the world ended up in the French Central Office for Combating Trafficking in Cultural Property
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The European Union confirmed its full readiness to cooperate with the Libyan Money Recovery Office, management of recovered assets and provide technical and technological support in this field.
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Tourism Police and Protection of Antiquities Authority of Sousse in eastern Libya has arrested a man while he was excavating inside the city's archaeological area, after being monitored for four days.
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The Special Deterrence Force (SDF) has arrested two smugglers of antiquities, with stolen antiques dating back to the Roman era.
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Lawyers for the Crown Estate of Queen Elizabeth II have reportedly turned down the request to return 'stolen' artefacts from the ancient Roman settlement of Leptis Magna in president-day Libya, despite a campaign of a British-Li
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The Libyan Foreign Ministry said it had handed over a piece of antiquity returned from New York, United States, thanking US authorities for its special cooperation with Libya’s embassy in Washington DC to return the marble bust
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A delegation consisting of the Deputy Head of the Tourist Police, a representative of the Libyan Foreign Ministry and an expert from the Antiquities Department visited Brazil to inspect an archaeological statue that ha
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The Attorney General's Office announced the theft of 11 historical documents written in Aramaic.
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