1.   Last spring, the USIA organized and funded a symposium in Antigua on the subject of stolen Mayan relics.

2.   Authorities lack money to protect sites from pillaging and antiquities dealers are prowling the region, offering cash for stolen relics.

3.   Police have recovered stolen relics ranked as state treasures from shops at Dunhuang, the oasis town in northwest China famous for Buddhist art in the Mogao Caves.

4.   The Xinhua News Agency said it was the largest haul of stolen relics authorities had ever discovered.

5.   Irsheidat was not able to provide the value of the stolen relics, but said there have been dozens of arrests for archaeological thefts.