Le Monde has learned that two expert reports from 2021 and 2022 warned against transporting the millennium-old artwork, which is to be loaned to Britain and exhibited in London in September 2026.

Deux rapports publiés en 2021 et en 2022, dont « Le Monde » a pris connaissance, alertent quant aux risques générés par le transport de l’œuvre millénaire qui doit être exposée à…

Le Monde has learned that two expert reports from 2021 and 2022 warned against transporting the millennium-old artwork, which is to be loaned to Britain and exhibited in London in…

Studies found it ‘strongly inadvisable’ to transport the thousand-year-old masterpiece as far as the British Museum

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