via Vietnam Plus, 18 November 2022: The repatriated artefacts are part of a cache seized from a collector in Indiana and includes items from the Dong Son culture.
A ceremony was held at the Vietnam National Museum of History on November 18 to receive ten artefacts, the earliest dating back to the Dong Son culture (BC 1,000 – AD 1st century), returned by the US.
The artefacts include a stone axe of the Post Neolithic Era (BC 4,500-3,500), three bronze axes and one ceramic saucepan of Dong Son culture; three stone crocodile sculptures of AD 1st – 2nd century, and two bronze pipes from the 17th-18th century.
Source: Vietnam receives historic artefacts from US | Videos | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
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