Greek statue returned to Libya

An ancient Greek sculpture worth up to £3million has finally been returned to the Libyan Government more than a decade after it was stolen. The marble statue, said to depict Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, Persephone, was discovered in a west London warehouse in 2013. HMRC officials believed the artifact had been taken out of Libya via Dubai two years earlier. District Judge John Zani, sitting at Westminster Magistrates Court, had ruled that the statue had been unlawfully excavated…