![]() ![]() Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli-tomb raiders- who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. ![]() The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums ![]()
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