Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday that the artifacts were brought back to Hungary from London a few days ago after long negotiations with unidentified sellers.
The artifacts are part of the "Sevso treasure," a collection of 15 silver objects named after their owner, a high-ranking Roman official who lived in what is now western Hungary, then part of the Roman Empire. The treasure is believed to have been found in the mid-1970s near Hungary's Lake Balaton by an amateur archaeologist who died in mysterious circumstances in 1980.
Hungary had been trying for decades to regain the treasure.
Source: The Associated Press [March 26, 2014]