New York Investigators Return 36 Artifacts to Syria, Including Relief Looted from Palmyra

Thirty-six antiquities, collectively valued at more than $5 million, including a stone relief looted from the ancient site of Palmyra, have been retuned to Syria, New York investigators announced on Wednesday.Among the group are 14 “extraordinary” mosaics stolen from a Roman-era villa in Syria linked to antiquities dealer Georges Lotfi, a former source for the Manhattan district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit who was, in a dramatic turn of events, charged in 2022 with