Smuggled Cultural Relics Handed Over to GovernmentThe Shenzhen Customs House handed over 18,011 cultural relics confiscated from smugglers to the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Department Tuesday.This was a portion of the 30,000 cultural relics intercepted by the Shenzhen Customs House since 1987. Valuable objects included a 60-million-year-old dinosaur egg fossil, pottery dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220) and a two-ton iron Buddha image of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The handover was based on a memorandum for cooperation in clamping down on cultural relic smuggling signed between Guangdong and Shenzhen. The remaining confiscated objects will be attended to soon. |
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