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SOCIETY | 10:46 / 26.08.2021
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Uzbekistan returns illegally taken artifacts
Several dozen items of historical and cultural value have been returned to Uzbekistan, the press service of the State Customs Committee reported.
29 manuscripts and 16 ceramics were illegally taken from the republic and were on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Some of the books were written in the 17th-19th centuries and contain religious texts and poems in Arabic, Farsi and Turkic.
Some pottery products were created in the 15th-17th centuries by the masters of the Samarkand pottery school.
The items returned to Uzbekistan were transferred to the Center for Islamic Civilization.
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