The vases, which were estimated to sell for as much as $71,000, were pulled from a sale in New York this week

All but one of the items were voluntarily handed over by the Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter

It is one of several artefacts making their first public appearance at Lindisfarne Priory

Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities

The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century

Repeated requests by Mexican politicians to return the crown have been rebuffed

The 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture was discovered on a country estate near the village of Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire

Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014

Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts

Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440

Charges are pending against two New York-based antiquities dealers linked to the objects

The crafts chain, which bought them for its Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, says the seller lied about the biblical objects’ provenance

Dating from the ninth and tenth centuries, the objects are thought to have been looted from sacred sites in the late 1960s

Tools and other objects were discovered in a national park in southwest Texas, triggering an inquiry

Dealers association challenged the campaign’s claims that two newly pictured objects were stolen

Federal attorneys file a civil complaint, but museum says repatriation was already in the works

Measures agreed by government and states include a set of common standards for digital registers