Weekly Roundups- April 21st

Looted antiquities, asteroids, money $$$, and more- our favorites from this past week

US Returns Two Antiquities to the People of Libya

Over $500,000 worth of antiquities were repatriated to Libya last week, including the “Veiled Head of a Lady,” picture below. These objects were all looted from the city of Cyrene in the 1980’s and 90’s. In particular, the “Veiled Lady” was seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) where it had bee…