France returns ancient treasures sized by customs to Pakistan
By AFP
14 July 2019 |
1:48 pm
France returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some dating to the second and third millennia B.C.
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