Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung handed over 18 antiques from different cultural periods to the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi on August 9.
Officials examine the antiques at the hand-over ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese Ambassadorto Germany Doan Xuan Hung handed over 18 antiques from different culturalperiods to the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi on August 9.
The antiques, including 10 stone and eightbronze artifacts, were instruments of production and weapons of ancient peoplethat were seized by Berlin police at the shop of a Vietnamese trader in late2016.
There are five objects of the Dong Nai culturedating back 4,000-3,500 years, five of late New Stone Age and early CentralHighland Metal Age, 4,000-3,500 years, and eight of Dong Son culture,2,500-2,000 years.
From March 2017 to February 2018, the VietnameseEmbassy in Germany and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism worked withthe Federal Foreign Office (the German foreign ministry) and relevant agenciesto verify the origin of the objects and complete procedures to hand over theantiques to Vietnam.
On March 28, 2018, representatives from Berlinpolice and ministry of culture handed over the objects to the VietnameseEmbassy in Germany.
Ambassador Hung said the embassy had beenpreserving the antiques from March 2018 and now at the museum for research,preservation and display.
Germany has handed over illegally tradedantiques to many countries. Vietnam was the first country in Southeast Asia toreceive the ancient objects.
Director of the museum Nguyen Van Cuong said thehandover of the antiques demonstrates the responsibility of Germany inimplementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting andPreventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transport of Ownership of CulturalProperty.
Earlier, the museum coordinated with Germany toorganise exhibitions showcasing some 300 antiques at the archaeological museumin Westfalen State in Herne (from October 7, 2016 to February 26, 2017), thenational archaeological museum in Chemnitz (from March 30 to August 20, 2017)and the Reiss-Engelhorn museum in Mannheim (from September 16, 2017 to January7, 2018).
The exhibitions aim to help internationalfriends, including Germans, understand traditional Vietnamese culture.-VNA
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Officials examine the antiques at the hand-over ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
