中国 注目する,もくろむs return of 'stolen' mummy

A Chinese 州 is 捜し出すing the return of a 1,000-year-old mummified 修道士, 説 it was stolen two 10年間s ago before resurfacing at an 展示 in Hungary, where it was suddenly 孤立した.

A Buddha statue 含む/封じ込めるing a 修道士's remains was on 陳列する,発揮する at the Mummy World 展示 at Budapest's Hungarian Natural History Museum, which brings together 28 保存するd 死体s from different cultures around the world.

It was 除去するd from the show, which has been running since October, 報告(する)/憶測s said at the 週末 -- although 詳細(に述べる)s of its provenance remained 不明瞭な.

A view of Budapest, Hungary where a controversial Buddha statue containing the mummified remains of a monk, is on display in the Hungarian Natural History Mu...

A 見解(をとる) of Budapest, Hungary where a 議論の的になる Buddha statue 含む/封じ込めるing the mummified remains of a 修道士, is on 陳列する,発揮する in the Hungarian Natural History Museum ?Attila Kisbenedek (AFP/とじ込み/提出する)

A spokesm an for the 州's Cultural 遺物 Bureau told 中国's 公式の/役人 Xinhua news 機関 the statue is believed to have been stolen from a 寺 in Yangchun village.

A mummy statue worshipped since the 12th century went 行方不明の from the 寺 in 1995, the bureau said.

"When I saw the photo (of the Buddha statue) on the TV news, it すぐに reminded me of our lost statue," 農業者 Lin Yongtuan told the 明言する/公表する-run 中国 Daily newspaper on Monday.

A message on the Budapest museum's website Monday said that the statue "had been 除去するd and sent 支援する to the Netherlands 予定 to the request of the 貸付金ing partner, the Drents Museum".

The Drents Museum said in an email to AFP that in 2013 it "received on 貸付金 from a 私的な Dutch collector of Chinese art an 早期に Buddhist 遺物-statue 含む/封じ込めるing a mummy".

The 貸付金 had been for a travelling 展示 on mummies that was 陳列する,発揮するd at the museum from February until August of last year, it 追加するd.

"予定 to the 最近の マスコミ attention the owner has now decided to 身を引く his 貸付金 until その上の notice from the 展示 at the 国家の Museum of Natural History in Budapest," Drents said.

A spokeswoman for the Hungarian museum, Monika Stefan Kiss, told the Hungarian news 機関 MTI the owner did not explain the 決定/判定勝ち(する), but was "する権利を与えるd to 身を引く the 貸付金d piece at any time".

The 出来事/事件 is the 最新の 事例/患者 of 恐らく stolen Chinese artifacts resurfacing abroad. Beijing has made the return of such 遺物s a 優先 as it flexes its growing international muscle and tries to build public support at home.

In 2013 French 億万長者 Francois-Henri Pinault returned two bronze fountainhead s from Beijing's Old Summer Palace, whose auction in 2009 乱暴/暴力を加えるd 中国.

The monument was 略奪するd by British and French 軍隊/機動隊s in 1860 during the Second あへん War, an event seen in 中国 as a 国家の humiliation at the 手渡すs of Western armies. Beijing 見積(る)s that at least 1.5 million items were 略奪するd at the time.

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