A PRICELESS bronze pig head dating from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) returned to its home in Beijing on Thursday for the first time since being looted by invading foreign troops 143 years ago.
The head is one of 12 bronze animal-head-human-body sculptures formerly guarding a building in Yuanmingyuan Park, the old Imperial Summer Palace, in the northwest of Beijing, which was built from 1709 onwards and burned down by British and French troops in 1860.
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