Two of the objects will be handed over the Italian authorities, while three will remain on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta

Some of the 19 artefacts handed over by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had ties to notorious traffickers

The artworks include an 11th-century stone sculpture donated by a relative of a longtime curator of Asian art at the Met

The repatriation ceremony at the San Bernardino County Museum was timed to coincide with the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US and Mexican Independence Day

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

The sculpture, which depicts a daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is the second out-of-state item to be seized by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit

The museum had recently revised public information about the sculpture, likely a depiction of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, in an apparent attempt to distance itself from its alleged looting

They had been smuggled into the US after a 2008 museum heist

The clay archaeological marvel, which was recovered thanks to a Texan artist, is believed to be more than 1,300 years old

The Menil Collection denies claims in an Italian police statement that 60 of the disputed artefacts were housed at the Texas museum

A skull relief carving hailing from the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá has been repatriated

The artefacts, valued at a total of $1.26m, changed hands with a repatriation ceremony

The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth

The 65 heritage objects in question include a glass with a clay pedestal dating from the Mesoamerican Classic period and a ceramic bowl dating from 200CE

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

After a repatriation ceremony last November, members of Indigenous communities debate what to do with objects long held at the Founders Museum

In all, 83 artefacts scheduled to be sold in Paris next week are protected under Mexican law, authorities say

The small Dutch Carribean island has recovered bone fragments and artefacts uncovered in a Dutch archaeological dig more than 30 years ago

The Royal Ontario Museum returned an ornate saddlebag and ceramic pipe to descendants of Poundmaker

The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at New York's Museum of Modern Art

The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt

The US government has returned a looted ivory spoon in the first repatriation exchange between the two countries

A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

The artefacts, cylinder and stamp seals dating back thousands of years, were seized after a US collector tried to sell one in an online auction

Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year