Italy, a long time victim of antiquities theft that has worked for decades to recover its treasures, is coming to terms with the fact that it, too has stolen loot in its museum collections: the relics of a brutal colonial empire that the country hasn't fully reckoned with. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Less 5 of15 Food products coming from former Italian colony 'Tripolitania', now Libya, are seen in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Lessģ of15 4 of15 Anthropologist Gaia Delpino looks at artifacts from to the Italian colonialist period in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023. Andrew Medichini/AP Show More Show Less 2 of15 Andrea Viliani, director of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, poses for a photo, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023.

1 of15 Busts of Italian military officers and high prelates from the Italian colonialist period are seen in a deposit of the Museo delle Civilta', Museum of Civilizations, in Rome, Friday, April 14, 2023.

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