American Is Charged With Stealing Terra-Cotta Warrior’s Thumb
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American Is Charged With Stealing Terra-Cotta Warrior’s Thumb
FBI says a US man stole the thumb of a 2,200-year-old Chinese terracotta warrior statue being displayed at the Franklin Institute pic.twitter.com/ZwzRrSq8V2 Mr. Rohana,
24, was charged last week in Philadelphia with theft of an artwork from a museum, concealment of the artwork and interstate transportation of stolen property.
The museum has reviewed procedures and told security guards
that "any lapses are intolerable," the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center official told the Beijing Youth Daily.
"We call on the American side to severely punish the person who committed this destruction
and theft of mankind’s cultural heritage," the unidentified official told the Beijing Youth Daily, a Communist Party affiliated newspaper, on Sunday.
19, 2018
A man has been charged with theft after apparently breaking off the thumb of a terra-cotta
statue, valued at $4.5 million, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
The statue was helpless, however, against a man in a green sweater
and a Phillies hat who, the authorities say, sneaked into a closed-off area during a party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in December and stole its thumb.
An official from the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center, which organizes the
display of the statues abroad, asked that the thief be given a tough penalty.
FBI says a US man stole the thumb of a 2,200-year-old Chinese terracotta warrior statue being displayed at the Franklin Institute pic.twitter.com/ZwzRrSq8V2 Mr. Rohana,
24, was charged last week in Philadelphia with theft of an artwork from a museum, concealment of the artwork and interstate transportation of stolen property.
The museum has reviewed procedures and told security guards
that "any lapses are intolerable," the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center official told the Beijing Youth Daily.
"We call on the American side to severely punish the person who committed this destruction
and theft of mankind’s cultural heritage," the unidentified official told the Beijing Youth Daily, a Communist Party affiliated newspaper, on Sunday.
19, 2018
A man has been charged with theft after apparently breaking off the thumb of a terra-cotta
statue, valued at $4.5 million, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
The statue was helpless, however, against a man in a green sweater
and a Phillies hat who, the authorities say, sneaked into a closed-off area during a party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in December and stole its thumb.
An official from the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center, which organizes the
display of the statues abroad, asked that the thief be given a tough penalty.