Italy gets back stolen gold cart of Etruscan prince from Denmark
A whole host of looted Etruscan treasures, including a Princes' golden carriage will begin arriving back in Italy later this year after spending the last forty years on display at a Danish museum.
The priceless artefacts were stolen from the necropolis of in Eretum, the remains of an ancient, pre-Roman city in Lazio and sold to Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek for 1.2 million Swiss Francs in the 1970s.
Since 2008 Italian officials have been negotiating the return of the pieces, which include a gold leaf cart thought to have belonged to a prince, ceramics, bronzes, shields and a gold breastplate.
The cart, known as the Carro Sabino, boasts 12 gold played panels decorated
A whole host of looted Etruscan treasures, including a Princes' golden carriage will begin arriving back in Italy later this year after spending the last forty years on display at a Danish museum.
The priceless artefacts were stolen from the necropolis of in Eretum, the remains of an ancient, pre-Roman city in Lazio and sold to Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek for 1.2 million Swiss Francs in the 1970s.
Since 2008 Italian officials have been negotiating the return of the pieces, which include a gold leaf cart thought to have belonged to a prince, ceramics, bronzes, shields and a gold breastplate.
The cart, known as the Carro Sabino, boasts 12 gold played panels decorated