New Delhi: Delhi’s National Museum went into a tizzy when the replica of the Dancing Girl statue went missing this week. A CISF sub-inspector noticed it and raised the alarm. CISF officials began scanning visitors and reviewing CCTV footage. They found the statue in the possession of a 45-year-old man, identified as a professor at the Ashoka University in Sonipat, Haryana.

All this hullabaloo over not the Dancing Girl but her replica?

The Dancing Girl is a small bronze statuette about 10.5 cm high housed in the Harappan Gallery on the ground floor. The replica of the Dancing Girl is kept in the Anubhav Gallery for the differently abled along with 21 other items. Show Full Article

The Dancing Girl dates back to the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilisation and was excavated in 1926 at Mohenjo-

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