A set of extremely rare textiles has been returned to Peru, more than eight decades after they were smuggled out of the country by a Swedish diplomat.
The items were handed back to the country after an agreement with musuem authorities in Gothenburg last year.
Among the highlights are a 2000-year-old intricately coloured pre-Incan funeral shroud, measuring 41 inches by 21 inches (104 centimeters by 53 centimeters).
It was among 88 other textiles donated to a museum in Gothenburg in the early 1930s by Sven Karell, the Swedish consul.
He had secreted them out of Peru following their discovery in the Paracas Peninsula, a desert south of Lima where the extremely dry climate helped to protect the Alpaca wool fibres.
Despite being 2,000 years old,