The Swiss federal authorities have announced that they have returned to Libya a marble head of a young woman from the Hellenistic period, dating back some 2,000 years, discovered ten years ago in a warehouse in Geneva.
The 19-centimetre-high sculpture dates from between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, and most probably comes from the archaeological site of the ancient city of Cyrene, in the Cyrenaica region of present-day Libya.