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Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
KUWAIT
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Kuwait
Updated October 2020

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Kuwait to a country or community of source.  Entries are updated regularly.

October 2018
Kuwaiti authorities return the lid of a sarcophagus to Egypt, smuggled into the Gulf state in March 2018

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