from The New York Times -
Umbrian Umbrage: Send Back That Etruscan Chariot
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Serendipity has it that 2 earlier posts (here and here) form the context of this article which highlights the claims of a town in central Italy to the ownership of the Etruscan chariot which was painstakingly restored after much research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The underlying irony is that if the chariot had not been taken out of Italy (legally or otherwise) and given pride of place in the museum, its historical significance could in all likelihood be lost, hence avoiding a contest of wills all together. A victim of its own "success", maybe?
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