The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum
by
Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's...