Thelma Bishop is something of a living legend in Turkey. The Stockport local received a hero’s welcome from Culture and Tourism Minister, Numan Kurtulmuş, after returning a 4,500-year-old jug she’d initially been considering selling.br br Back in the 60s, Bishop bought the jug as a souvenir in the ancient city of Ephesus. She decided to return it after having it valued and being told by an expert that it was a actually a Bronze-age urn, that is considered cultural property. br br As a sign of gratitude, the Briton and Jason Wood, the ceramics expert who helped her in the return process, were presented with gifts and invited to spend a week in Turkey.br br While there, she has seen the urn on display in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations in the capital, Ankara. It’s believed the jug had been stolen from a grave and sold on afterwards. If Bishop had then re-sold it as she’d planned, she would have, inadvertently, been breaking a law dating back to the 1880s.