US accused of sending fake Roman mosaics back to Lebanon

Expert claims to have indentified copies of mosaics at sites and in museums in Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey

Authorities in New York have been accused by leading academics in France and Britain of repatriating fake Roman artefacts to Lebanon.

Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently returned to the Middle Eastern country are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague of the University of Grenoble.