France restitutes ancient stolen statue to Libya from Louvre museum

France has returned a 4th-century BC funeral statue to Libya after it was looted from the north African nation and kept in Paris's Louvre Museum. 

Stolen amid the 2011 Arab uprisings, the headless bust, which had been part of the Louvre's collection since 2016, commemorates an unnamed man and originates from Shahhat, Libya.

The statue hails from the era when the region was under the Ptolemaic kingdom, an ancient Greek state in Egypt founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals, the Libyan National Museum reports.