According to several news outlets, the Manhattan District Attorney handed over 33 looted antiquities valued at roughly $1.8 million to the Afghan ambassador to the U.S., Roya Rahmani and other officials on April 20th , at a repatriation ceremony in New York City.
Based on the reports, these artifacts are a small number of thousands of historical artifacts, some of which are more than 1,800 years old, and were removed from Afghanistan over the past half century due to war and unrest.
The returned artifacts were part of 2,500 historical artifacts worth $143 million that were seized during dozens of police operations and in the collection of disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor, who is now in prison in India and awaiting extradition to the U.S.
The works handed over to the Afghan ambassador on Monday will finally be exhibited at the Kabul National Museum.