NEW YORK (AP) — Three ancient sculptures are being returned to their rightful owners in Lebanon as the Manhattan district attorney forms a new antiquities trafficking unit.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced Friday the repatriation of the treasures that were possessed by private collectors and are worth more than $5 million.

They were stolen from a temple during the Lebanese civil war that started in 1975.

The bull's head and two marble torsos were confiscated in New York in the past few months.

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They're the latest looted artifacts to be returned from the city that's the U.S. hub of antiquity sales.