When Virginia Tech professor Sweta Gyanu Baniya saw an ornate 17th-century Nepali necklace in the Art Institute of Chicago, she burst into tears, bowed down and began to pray.
Now a video she posted on social media has made the artifact one of the latest targets for heritage activists sleuthing online to try to bring home some of the thousands of items whisked out over decades from the Himalayan country.
The return journey has been made by only a handful of relics, but they have come from some of the world’s top cultural institutions and pressure for more is mounting.
Nepal’s then king
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