AMMAN The US Embassy returned nine trafficked cultural antiquities to Jordan from the United States during an official handover ceremony at the Department of Antiquities (DoA) in Amman on Tuesday.The artifacts were illegally “smuggled” from Jordan and obtained by an antiquities collector in the US, according to a US Embassy statement.
A prominent patron of Israeli cultural institutions like the Israel Museum, Steinhardt has so far surrendered 180 trafficked artifacts from around the Middle East