An Etruscan bronze statuette of a man offering a sacrifice to a god has returned to the archeological museum in this Tuscan town 38 years after it was stolen.
The small statue, part of a haul taken from the museum in 1971, was recently recovered in the United States by Italy's art cops, the Carabinieri Heritage Protection Unit.
Chiusi is one of many towns in the ancient Etruscan heartland.
Founded by the pre-Roman people under the name of Chamars, it saw its greatest splendour between the seventh and fifth centuries BC.
At the end of this period it was ruled by Prosenna who laid siege to Rome in a bid to restore Rome's last Etruscan king, Tarquin the Proud.
