US hands back artefacts to Peru (BBC)

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By Will Grant
BBC News, Miami

The US has handed over more than 400 Incan and pre-Columbian artefacts to the government of Peru.

The items, which are believed to be worth millions of dollars, had been stolen from several Andean nations.

They include a cape made from macaw and parrot feathers, gold and silver jewellery and a clay vessel believed to be more than 3,500 years old.

The artefacts had been stolen from South America by grave robbers and came into the US via the black market.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751167.stm

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1. Good news.

Now, about those Elgin marbles? I'm looking at you, Britain.