British Museum helps return 2,000-year-old looted statue to Libya

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Sculpture of Greek goddess suspected to have been illegally excavated during 2011 civil war

, would have been fixed to a tomb in a cemetery in the ancient Libyan city of Cyrene. She has snake bracelets carved into her wrists and is holding a small doll, making it, the museum said, “one of the rarest of the Cyrenaican funerary statues”.

 

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It wasn't a civil war. France, UK and US decided to wreck Ghadaffi's Libya.

Now do the looted marbles from the Athens Parthenon

Is returning statues with faces to a muslim countries a smart idea, where extremists try to grab power who destroy all figures and images of humans due to their believe? 🧐

For some third world dictator to enjoy it. What a waste

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