A rare 2,000 year-old statue is being returned to Libya after it was found during an attempt to smuggle it through Heathrow Airport.
Border Force officials seized the sculpture in 2013, which experts discovered was illegally dug up from a tomb.
A court ruled in 2015 that the marble statue - which depicts Greek goddess Persephone - belonged to Libya after using evidence from British Museum experts.
Since the court case, the statue has been stored for safekeeping at the British Museum while HMRC works alongside the Libyan Embassy to return the statue to its home country.
The one metre-high statue is now expected to make the 2,250 mile journey back to Libya in the coming weeks.