Berlin's state museums are starting a systematic investigation of the provenance of the state's archaeological collections with a view to repatriating objects that were illegally excavated or exported from their place of origin.A pilot project involving researchers from Berlin and Turkey will examine the provenance of objects from archaeological sites at Sam'al, Didyma and Samarra that are currently located in the collections of three Berlin collections-the Museum of Islamic art, the Museum for the Ancient Near East and the classical antiquities collection, Berlin museum officials said.
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