It took years of often tense negotiations, but on Tuesday the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen signed an agreement that includes the return of archaeological artifacts that Italy said had been looted from Italian soil.

"What at first looked as if it would turn into a legal, political deadlock," has been transformed into a "both powerful and visionary agreement" through an "intense academic dialogue," Flemming Friborg, director of the Glyptotek, said in a joint statement with Italy's minister of culture.

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