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BERN, SWITZERLAND—Swiss Info reports that Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture has handed over a seven-inch sculpture of a young woman’s head to the Libyan Embassy. Dated to between the first century B.C. and the first century A.D., the marble sculpture is thought to have been looted from the site of the ancient city of Cyrene, which is located on Libya’s Mediterranean coastline. It was found by Swiss authorities during a customs inspection in Geneva in 2013, and seized in 2016 as part of a criminal investigation. For more on looted artifacts from Cyrene, go to “Arab Spring Impacts Archaeology,” one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2011.
