In March this year, a statue of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, left the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, its home since 1988, to return to the Sicilian town of Aidone, where it was discovered.
Six months later, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts returned the Weary Herakles to Turkey, so the torso of the mythological Greek hero could be reunited with the legs and pelvis of a statue discovered near Antalya in the early 1980s.
Soon after, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts announced it was sending a volute krater, a Greek vase showing a Dionysiac procession, back to the site where it was unearthed in Puglia, Italy.