The culture ministry’s public database of lost works still contains around 70,000 items.
The culture ministry’s public database of lost works still contains around 70,000 items.
The diamond ring belonged to 16th-century Polish King Sigismund I.
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Łaski’s Statute of 1505 was the first codification of laws published in the Kingdom of Poland.
“Today these items are in German homes, mansions, museums,” says Poland’s deputy foreign minister.
Some have wondered if the item was looted from Poland during the Nazi German and Soviet occupations of World War Two.
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and other cultural items remain missing after disappearing during the war.