The Manhattan District Attorney’s office recently announced the return of 29 antiquities to Greece, estimated to be worth a total of $3 million.
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The objects were seized by the office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit as part of “ongoing investigations into multiple looting and trafficking networks, including those run by convicted traffickers Robin Symes and Eugene Alexander,” according to a press release on October 10. Notably, two of of the items were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year…