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How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture

by Valentina Di Liscia March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

The looted status of the stele has been well documented since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until this year that the FBI and Dallas Museum of Art collaborated to return the religious artifact.

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Museum of Bible Returns 5,000 Artifacts With “Insufficient” Provenance to Egypt

by Hakim Bishara January 28, 2021January 28, 2021

The US Department of Homeland Security returned the artifacts to Cairo yesterday, concluding Egypt’s efforts to retrieve the items since 2016.

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In Mark Zuckerberg’s World, “Provenance” Means Nothing

by Kate Gill October 29, 2019

The tech entrepreneur’s use of the word provenance serves to erase its weighty history as an art historical term — and Facebook’s complicity in spreading “fake news.”

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