Crime and Trials
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… but it gets better: he intended to sell it on eBay to cover the cost of an iPhone. According to the various reports, a sixteen-year-old Dutch tourist took a roof tile from a domus on the Via dell’Abbondanza but was spotted and turned in to authorities by another tourist. He was later arrested, charged with…
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@Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues Carabinieri Art Squad Reports Significant Increases in Looting and Fakery.
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I’m a bit confused by this one from Hurriyet: A 12,000-year-old tomb made of rock in the southern province of Mersin’s Silifke district has been blown up with dynamite by treasure hunters. The assistant head of Olba archaeological excavations, Murat Özyıldırm said during a visit to the ancient city with his students on March 5,…
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Brief item from Greek Reporter: A statue, believed to be the ancient Greek goddess Demeter, has been unearthed at an illegal excavation in Simav, western Turkey. The statue, weighing in at 610kg and standing 2.8 meters tall, was discovered by two Turks, Ramazan C. And Ismail G, 26 and 62 years old respectively, who are…
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Tantalizingly brief item from the Kyiv Post: The director of the Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, is concerned about the fate of the Scythian gold exhibition, which got lost on the way from Europe to its home – the Museum of Kerch in Crimea. via: Piotrovsky: Fate of Kerch Scythian gold unknown after Europe exhibition (Kyiv…
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