The Swiss government gave a very old statue made of Libyan marble to the Libyan embassy in Bern, Switzerland.
The sculpture of a young woman’s head is 19cm (seven inches) tall and was made between the first century BC and the first century AD, according to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Cultural Affairs.
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“It probably came from the ancient city of Cyrene in Libya and shows that the Greeks once spread out into North Africa. ”
In 2013, a sculpture was found in a storage place in Geneva by customs officers. In 2016, the Swiss government took it because it was not allowed to be there.
The office said there is a good reason to think the sculpture was taken illegally, but they don’t know how it got to Switzerland.
Libya and Switzerland both agreed to a treaty in 1970 with Unesco to stop the illegal selling of cultural items.
The office repeated what the UN and other groups have said before about people stealing and ruining Libya’s old things.
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2,000-year-old sculpture from Libya returned by Switzerland
