{"id":159432,"date":"2026-10-28T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159432"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:00:07","slug":"australia-returns-ancient-stone-heads-to-china-after-more-than-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159432","title":{"rendered":"Australia returns ancient stone heads to China after more than 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAustralia has returned two stone sculptures to China after more than 30 years abroad.<br \/>\nThe statues, showing the heads of a military official and civil servant, had been given to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra by a private collector and date back to the Northern Song dynasty (960\u20131127).<br \/>\nChina\u2019s National Cultural Heritage Administration received the heads on Wednesday, according to the state broadcaster CCTV.<br \/>\nThey are thought to have been removed from two imperial mausoleums in Henan&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372466\/australia-returns-ancient-stone-heads-china-after-more-30-years\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAustralia has returned two stone sculptures to China after more than 30 years abroad. The statues, showing the heads of a military official and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}