Hobby Lobby: Christian firm's artefact smuggling case settled
A major US arts and crafts company has forfeited thousands of smuggled ancient artefacts from Iraq it had bought for a Bible museum.
Christian-owned firm Hobby Lobby has agreed to hand over the smuggled items and pay $3m (£2.3m) in a settlement.
US attorneys say it violated federal law by importing thousands of clay tablets and tokens as "tile samples".
Hobby Lobby said it "did not fully appreciate the complexities" of the import process when it began.
The retailer is well-known for being at the centre of a 2014 US Supreme Court battle to avoid paying for female workers' contraception on religious grounds.
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