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Scholars are raising questions about the origins of the works in LACMA, while curators are wondering how much they’ll have to send back.

New report traces the origins of the oft-repeated superlative, which its authors say is incorrect and actually makes it harder to fight trafficking

The assertion that the illicit antiquities trade is “the world’s third largest, second only to arms and narcotics” is unsubstantiated and damaging, a new paper argues.

An investigation into a five-decade-long belief that the illicit antiquities and artifact trade is among the top 3 of international smuggling crimes has found it to be unfounded.

"A transnational clothing brand staffing its factories with slave labor. An 11th-century statue stolen from a temple, trafficked overseas, and sold to a museum for millions of dollars...A drug-related massacre and hundreds of people missing as a result.

At least half of the roughly 120 known T. rex fossils are owned privately and not available to the public. “Maximus” may join them.

For decades, there was a swashbuckling aspect to collecting by American museums. In the 1960s, for example, some museum curators embraced the chase for pri..

Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost.

By Web Staff

JERUSALEM — One of the Israel Museum’s biggest patrons, American billionaire Michael Steinhardt, approached the flagship Israeli art institution in 2007 with an artifact he had recently bought: a 2,200-year-old Greek text carved into limestone.