Trafficking in antiquities - Finestre sull'Arte

Pompeii recovers a valuable fresco that was in the U.S. in a private collection

A fragment of a fresco from the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, north of Pompeii, has returned to the availability of Pompeii Archaeological Park after being spotted within a private collection in the United States. The work depicts Hercules as a ...
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Trafficking in artifacts worth 100 million: operation in Bulgaria

On November 19, 2025, an operation coordinated by Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol and the participation of police and judicial forces from Albania, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom, led to the dismantling of a...
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From Syrian tombs to Western museums: trafficking in antiquities after the fall of Assad

In the dark nights of Palmyra, groups of men armed with picks, shovels and jackhammers move silently through the ruins. Their goal is not memory, nor preservation of the past: they search for buried treasures, ancient coins, carved busts, mosaics. Th...
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