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Irish police have seized a number of valuable archaeological artifacts as part of a European-wide crackdown on illegal art trafficking. 

NEW YORK — On Aug. 8, Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ricky J.

Cambodia has often featured in the Western imagination as a place of plunder and pilfering. Temples and artefacts of exquisite beauty have exercised the interest of adventurers and buccaneers who looted with almost kleptocratic tendency. In 1924, the French novelist and future statesman André Malraux, proved himself one of Europe’s greatest adventurers in making off

Rare Cuneiform Tablet Bearing Portion of Epic of Gilgamesh Bought by Hobby Lobby Now Forfeited to United States Auction House Sold the “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet” to Hobby Lobby Using a False Provenance  July 27, 2021 - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ordered the forfeiture of a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the world’s oldest works of literature.  Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and entered the United States contrary to federal law. An in...

Just after 1 am on St Patrick’s Day, 1990, two men in fake moustaches posing as police con their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston —81 minutes later, 13 treasures disappear into the night.