On April 17, local time, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage successfully recovered 38 lost cultural relics and artworks from the United States. The repatriation ceremony was held at the Chinese Consulate General in New York, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Manhattan handed over 38 pieces of seized Chinese cultural relics and artworks to the Chinese government.
After preliminary identification, experts judged that most of the cultural relics were Tibetan Buddhist cultural relics in the mainland during the Ming and Qing dynasties, involving pagodas, Buddha statues, Buddhist ornaments and other categories, covering copper, clay, ivory, wood and other materials, rich in content, well-preserved, and with important historical, artistic and scientific value.
Source | CCTV news client