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Switzerland has returned a large stone-carved head to Peru, dating back about 2,500 years, and belonging to one of the country’s ancient civilizations, according to what the Swiss Cultural Office announced.<\/p>\n

The sculpture, which weighs about 200 kilograms, was brought to Switzerland by truck in 2016 from Germany at the request of a German art dealer,\u00a0reports Al-Rai daily\u00a0quoting AFP.<\/p>\n

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture said in a statement that the sculpture had not been properly declared as a cultural asset. It was later confiscated because there were “verified suspicions” that it was taken illegally from Peru.<\/p>\n

The ornate stone carving was presented by Karen Bachmann, head of Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture, to Peruvian Ambassador Luis Alberto Castro Jo at the Basel-Waiil am Rhein-regional customs office, where the piece was found seven years ago.<\/p>\n

After its discovery, specialists in the Swiss Federal Office concluded, after examining the piece, that \u201cthe stone head dating back to 2,500 years in the time of the pre-Spanish Chav\u00edn civilization (about 1200 to 550 BC), had its original source in present-day Peru,\u201d according to the office\u2019s statement yesterday.<\/p>\n

“This makes it an important piece of cultural property that should have been declared as such upon import,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

The office said pre-Columbian artifacts, such as the returned stone head, are among the most endangered categories of cultural property in Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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