Switzerland hands a large stone-carved head back to Peru, where it was sculpted around 2,500 years ago by one of the country's earliest civilisations, the culture office said.
The sculpture weighs almost 200 kilograms and dates back around 2,500 years.abc.net.au/news/switzerland-gives-2-500-year-old-stone-sculpture-back-to-peru/101949724Switzerland has handed a large stone-carved head back to Peru, where it was sculpted around 2,500 years ago by one of the country's earliest civilisations, the culture office said.
Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture said in a statement that the sculpture had not been properly declared as a cultural property. FOC head Carine Bachmann presented the decorative stone sculpture to Peruvian ambassador Luis Alberto Castro Joo at the Basel-Weil am Rhein customs office, where the piece was discovered seven years ago.
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