A recovered 6th-century BC Sabine
prince's chariot is one of the exhibits in a show titled
Witnesses of Civilisation at Montecitorio in the Italian
parliament until the end of February.
The superb Chariot of Eretum was taken by tomb raiders at the
end of the 1960s and sent back to Italy after long negotiations
by a Copenhagen museum in 2016.
The show also highlights works saved from the 2016
earthquakes in central Italy such as a Tiepolo from a church in
the Marche town of Camerino, as well as a funerary relief from
Palmyra that was smuggled out of Syria and recovered from an
Asti home in 2011.
Other coups by Italy's crack art cops on show include
magnificent coral works stolen from the Roman convent of Santa
Maria in Aracoeli in 1986 and found in a market where some of
them had been turned into lampshades.
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