Thursday, March 03, 2022

Looted Steinhardt artifacts returned to Jordan

REPATRIATION: US returns Michael Steinhardt’s looted antiquities to Jordan. American and Jordanian authorities’ press statements about ceremony in Amman make no mention of billionaire, who agreed to surrender trafficked artifacts to avoid prosecution (Agencies via Times of Israel).

The article refers to two ancient Jewish tombstones among the nine artifacts, but they are not pictured with the other seven. The writer of the article would like to know more about them. So would I.

For more on the Steinhardt case, see here.

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