{"id":1668,"date":"2019-07-08T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/jul\/08\/british-museum-return-looted-afghan-artefacts-found-heathrow"},"modified":"2019-07-08T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:46:00","slug":"british-museum-to-return-looted-afghan-artefacts-found-at-heathrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"British Museum to return looted Afghan artefacts found at Heathrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buddhist heads likely removed by Taliban will go on display before being sent to Kabul<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-century Buddhist terracotta heads probably hacked off by the Taliban and found stuffed in poorly made wooden crates at Heathrow are to be returned to Afghanistan where they will be star museum exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/british-museum\">British Museum<\/a> gave details on Monday of one of the most significant repatriation cases it has dealt with relating to the illegal looting of artefacts from Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/jul\/08\/british-museum-return-looted-afghan-artefacts-found-heathrow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddhist heads likely removed by Taliban will go on display before being sent to KabulFourth-century Buddhist terracotta heads probably hacked off by the Taliban and found stuffed in poorly made wooden crates at Heathrow are to be returned to Afghanist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,210,211,71,212,89,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-museum","category-buddhism","category-culture","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-museums","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}