{"id":23700,"date":"2020-10-11T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/oct\/11\/british-museum-to-repatriate-ancient-tiles-smuggled-into-uk-in-a-suitcase"},"modified":"2020-10-11T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T08:48:07","slug":"british-museum-to-repatriate-ancient-tiles-smuggled-into-uk-in-a-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23700","title":{"rendered":"British Museum to repatriate ancient tiles smuggled into UK in a suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returned<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/british-museum\">British Museum<\/a> is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>The man who smuggled them in after a flight from Dubai in January even forged paperwork declaring them as replicas that were \u201cmade to look old\u201d. He produced a receipt that claimed they had been bought in Sharjah the previous day for 315 dirham, about \u00a370.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/oct\/11\/british-museum-to-repatriate-ancient-tiles-smuggled-into-uk-in-a-suitcase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returnedThe British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.The m&#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":[1449,210,71,299,61,52,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-british-museum","category-culture","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-uzbekistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23700","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=23700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23700\/revisions\/23702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}