The bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Turkey in the 1960s, is set to return to the country. The statue, considered one of the rare bronze works of the ancient age ...

The piece, valued at about $20 million, was seized in 2023 as part of an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's ...

A headless, bronze statue at the Cleveland Museum of Art is confirmed to have been looted from Bubon, Türkiye, and will soon be returned.

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham ...

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The testing also supported CMA's recent determination that the statue is likely not, as previously believed, a depiction of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius but a statue of a Greek philosopher. “The ...

Turkey’s claim had at one point hinged in part on convincing investigators that the statue in fact depicts Marcus Aurelius because a stone plinth at the site is inscribed with that emperor’s name.

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless bronze sculpture to Turkey after the Manhattan D.A. identified it as ...

A statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Türkiye through illegal excavations in the 1960s and changing hands multiple times over the years, is set to be repatriated. In a written ...

In November Ms Marcus was due to face a jury trial, however the same day it was meant to begin she fired her legal representative before marching out of the court. Chief Justice Michael Grant said ...