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Britain returns stolen artefacts to Afghanistan
Thursday July 19, 2012 08:52:51 PM,
IANS
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London: Historical
artefacts dating back to the Bronze Age (3500 to 1200 BC) that
were stolen from Afghanistan and smuggled to Britain have been
returned by the British armed forces, it was announced Thursday.
Some of the items were looted from Afghanistan's museums during
civil wars in the country over the past two decades while others
came from illegal excavations of archaeological sites.
The precious cargo, weighing more than two tonnes and containing
843 individual objects, left Royal Air Force Station Brize Norton
in Oxfordshire last week on board a transport plane, and was then
transferred from the British military base Camp Bastion in Helmand
province to Kabul, The Independent reported.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai
confirmed its safe arrival at a press conference in Kabul
Thursday.
The consignment included objects found in three separate seizures
by customs officials as they were being smuggled into Britain,
while other items came to light following investigations by the
Art and Antiques Unit of the Metropolitan Police. Additional
objects were saved by private individuals.
Experts at the British Museum identified them as originating in
Afghanistan and they were stored at the museum in London.
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