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Ancient Statue Is Seized From Manhattan Gallery

Ancient Statue Is Seized From Manhattan Gallery

Federal agents seized an ancient Afghan statue from a Manhattan gallery Wednesday morning, part of a string of seizures that began Friday and have coincided with Asia Week festivities in New York. The object, identified by authorities as an eighth-century marble sculpture of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati, seated on a tiger skin, was [...]

March 23, 2016 HHR Archives, World Focus 0

Angela Merkel returns India’s stolen 10th century Durga Murthi to Narendra Modi

Angela Merkel returns India’s stolen 10th century Durga Murthi to Narendra Modi

Germany on Monday returned to India a 10th century Durga Murthi which had gone missing from a temple in Kashmir over two decades back and was later found in that country. The Murthi was handed over by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their talks in New Delhi, three years [...]

October 7, 2015 HHR Archives, World Focus 0

US officials recover Chola bronze idol stolen from Indian temple

US officials recover Chola bronze idol stolen from Indian temple

New York, July 2:  A bronze religious statue from the 11-12th century, stolen from a temple in India and worth $1 million, has been recovered by US customs officials as part of a three-year investigation into former New York-based art dealer Subhash Kapoor. An anonymous collector of Asian antiquities voluntarily surrendered the stolen Chola bronze [...]

July 4, 2015 HHR Archives, News updates 0
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