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A 150-year-overdue book resurfaces in an Australian library, found bricked in a fireplace

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A copy of the 1858 publication "Antiquities of Athens" has been returned to the Kiama library in Australia, approximately 150 years after it was originally borrowed. The book was discovered by a resident during home renovations, where it had been bricked into a wall near a fireplace.

Library staff confirmed the return on Thursday, noting that the item is roughly a century and a half overdue. Due to the significant passage of time, the library has no way of identifying or tracking the original borrower.

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