Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
GUATEMALA
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 Guatemala
Updated November 2019
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions to Guatemala.  Entries are updated regularly.

November 2017
18 pre-Columbian archaeological pieces, illegally stolen from Guatemala in the 1960s and located in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, are repatriated


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