Michael Steinhardt

US returns smuggled historical artefacts to Turkiye

Among recovered items are 12 coins, a 6,000-year-old Kilia idol, a mother goddess idol from the neolithic period and a Stag’s Head Rhyton.

Disputed statuette, the Guennol Stargazer, lost to Turkey, US court says

A judge in New York ruled the country had acted too late to stake a claim on a statuette that was put on auction by Christie’s in 2017, despite it being smuggled out of Anatolia decades earlier.