New York authorities tracked down the object, which was being used as a coffee table by a Manhattan couple, after a photograph appeared in a book on porphyry
Giving things back—the how, when, where and why
Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is asking the St Louis Art Museum to return an supposedly looted antiquity
Sotheby's and Christie'shave been working with Cambodian authorities and organisations in the art world
To great tribal feasting, five American museums have returned totem poles stolen from an Alaskan tribe in 1899
Political considerations, not humane motives or conservation considerations, were behind the Glasgow Museums’ recent return of the Sioux artefact, says former director
Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now