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'This is a story about buried treasure': The 1970s tomb raiders who plundered 'million-dollar pots'.
It was one of the finest pieces of art ever bought by the Met. But it had been excavated by an Italian grave robber, then smuggled to the US. In 1975, the BBC investigated the lucrative global trade in stolen antiquities.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260911-the-tomb-raiders-who-plundered-million-dollar-pots #globalmuseum #museums #tombraiders #BBC