The return comes as part of a 15-year investigation into a vast looting network from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.
The Denver Art Museum this summer relinquished nearly two dozen relics from India associated with one of the world’s foremost smugglers of illicit antiquities.
Along with Denver’s 22 objects, the Manhattan DA’s office this week returned 285 other antiquities — valued at nearly $4 million — to India during a repatriation ceremony at the Indian consulate in New York City. Denver’s list of Kapoor items includes Indian antiquities dating back to the 1st century. There are 2,000-year-old plaques from the West Bengal Province, figurines of Hindu deities, steel sheathes and daggers, and Islamic reliefs from the 15th century.
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