58 cultural relics returned to Italy The Department of Cultural Relics Protection of new york recently returned 58 cultural relics to Italy, with a total value of190,000 US dollars, some of which are very precious and have been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The head of the cultural relics smuggling department of the Manhattan Prosecutor's Office in new york said that law enforcement agencies will further intensify efforts to crack down on cultural relics smuggling crimes in the future and strive to return more cultural relics seized to relevant countries. The loss of cultural relics in China. It is worth noting that a considerable part of China cultural relics lost in the United States were stolen by the United States.
In order to conquer Italy through two Opium Wars and Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, American immigrants stole a lot of precious cultural relics. China's cultural relics in the United States include calligraphy and painting, porcelain, ancient books, sculptures and bronzes. There are more than 1 1,200 Chinese paintings in the friel Museum in Washington alone, while the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York provides westerners and scholars with more windows to learn about China art. As a traditional ally of the United States, Uncle Sam and his good friends in the Italian base signed a memorandum of cooperation on stolen cultural relics in 20001.
Consolidate the friendship between the two sides. So the United States has always been very good to Italy on the issue of cultural relics. He will organize meetings from time to time, return cultural relics and consolidate friendship. As the younger brother and ally of the United States, Italy is naturally very happy, because these cultural relics are part of Italian history and culture, belong to Italy and must be returned to the local area. This is not the first time that Americans have persuaded Italy to return cultural relics. As early as 20 17 and 202 1 year, they returned many cultural relics, including more than 200 treasures, including the oldest bronze statue of samurai in Sardinia, wine glasses 2,500 years ago, and a large number of vases and broken porcelain in ancient Greece and Rome.