BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, one of several top U.S. museums accused of having looted antiquities from Italy, on Thursday became the first to hand over suspect artifacts to Rome.
Italian authorities had long contended that the 13 items, which include a 6-foot marble statue of Sabina, wife of Roman Emperor Hadrian, were taken from Italy in recent decades and sold by unscrupulous dealers.
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