The Guardian: US accused of sending fake Roman mosaics back to Lebanon ...Iraq

Shafaq News/ Authorities in New York have been accused by leading academics in France and Britain of repatriating fake Roman artefacts to Lebanon, the Guardian reported. Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently returned to the Middle Eastern country are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague of the University of Grenoble. She claims to have uncovered proof that forgers had copied designs from original mosaics in archaeological sites or museums in Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey. “Eight of the nine ‘returned’ mosaic panels were fakes that [are] relatively easy to detect because the models used are famous mosaics,” says Fellague. She

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