The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art announces it has entered a partnership with the Republic of Yemen Government to provide safe storage and care for 77 objects that the United States ...

Fourteen ancient bronze and stone sculptures that were recently returned to the Republic of Yemen from a private collection in New Zealand are headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...

Republic of Yemen and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Come to Agreement Over Artifacts The two pieces, which date back to the third millennium B.C.E., will remain in New York for now.

After they were returned, the Republic of Yemen asked the Met if the artifacts could be held, studied and cataloged at the museum until Yemeni officials request they be given back.

Yemen is trying to emerge from an eight-year civil conflict between the government, backed by Saudi Arabia, and a well-armed rebel group called the Houthis. The United Nations estimates that the ...

Ownership of the artifacts is being restored to Yemen, but given the civil war there Yemeni officials have asked the museum to safeguard them for now through a custodial agreement.