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QUETTA,
Pakistan Pakistani authorities have seized
some $10 million worth of artefacts believed
to be from the 12th and 16th centuries, a
government official said on Monday. Mohammad
Ashfaq, director of the government's
Archaeology Department, told a news conference
the artefacts included ancient Iranian
ornaments, a 300-year-old dagger, 150-year-old
statues from Central Africa, and several other
items. He said some of the objects, found in
the luggage of a Pakistani man at the Quetta
Airport, might be from the Iranian region
between the 12th and 16th centuries.
Several Iranian ornaments were also found in
unaccompanied baggage on a bus to Quetta, the
capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan
Province. The seizures come about one month
after authorities in Baluchistan found a
2,500-year-old mummy believed to have been a
member of ancient Iran's aristocracy.
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