Police in Benghazi has retrieved on Sunday a historic sculpture, which dates back to the the Italian colonization era, after it went missing for decades.
Capitoline Wolf, a she-wolf sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, was placed above a Granite column in Naser Street, in downtown Benghazi, during the Italian occupation of the city back in the 1940s.
Libyan authorities spent decades searching for the sculpture after it went missing sometime around the 1970s. Yesterday, the interior ministry of the Government of National Unity announced police in Benghazi had retrieved the sculpture, which was illegally possessed by local residents in Sidi Farag area of the city.
The police arrested the culprits, and handed the sculpture over to Benghazi Antiquities Control Department, the ministry said.