King Croesus's golden brooch to be returned to Turkey
The golden brooch from the Lydian Hoard (the original on the left)
"The brooch is part of the Lydian Hoard, known in Turkey as the Karun Treasure, which was looted from iron-age burial mounds in western Turkey in 1965. The artefacts were sold on, eventually to be exhibited in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s.
After a six-year legal battle that reportedly cost Turkey £25m, it was repatriated in 1993 and went on display in the Usak museum. But in 2006, after an anonymous tipoff, the brooch on show was discovered to be a fake, with the original missing again."
Constanze Letsch, The Guardian, November 25, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/25/king-croesus-treasure-returning-turkey
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