Cleveland Museum agrees to return the statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to Turkey ... once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of the Roman empire.

The bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Turkey in the 1960s, is set to return to the country. The statue, considered one of the rare bronze works of the ancient age ...

A statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Türkiye through illegal excavations in the 1960s and changing hands multiple times over the years, is set to be repatriated. In a written ...

Turkey’s claim had at one point hinged in part on persuading investigators that the statue in fact depicts Marcus Aurelius because a stone plinth at the site is inscribed with that emperor’s name.

The headless bronze statue was thought to represent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. New scientific testing has concluded it was likely looted from Turkey in the 1960s. After 18 months of ...

will remain on view in Cleveland for a yet-to-be-confirmed period of time before being transferred to Turkey. (The sculpture was previously believed to depict the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ...

The headless bronze statue was thought to represent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. New scientific testing has concluded it was likely looted from Turkey in the 1960s. After 18 months of uncertainty, ...