Uzbekistan returns illegally taken artifacts 

SOCIETY 10:46 / 26.08.2021 2862

29 manuscripts and 16 ceramics were illegally taken from the republic and were on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Some of the books were written in the 17th-19th centuries and contain religious texts and poems in Arabic, Farsi and Turkic.

Some pottery products were created in the 15th-17th centuries by the masters of the Samarkand pottery school.

The items returned to Uzbekistan were transferred to the Center for Islamic Civilization.

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