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Shipwreck plunder, art among nearly 38,000 items seized in police crackdown
Operation Pandora IX aims to disrupt the trade in cultural artifacts that’s grown larger and more professional since the ...
European police seize thousands of looted cultural goods
In a significant enforcement action coordinated by Spain's Guardia Civil, Europol's Operation Pandora IX resulted in the ...
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80 Arrests and more than 37,700 Cultural Goods seized in major Art Trafficking Bust
The ninth edition of Operation Pandora, an international operation targeting the trafficking of cultural goods, has led to 80 ...
La Brújula Verde5d
Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire
The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a ...
A$AP Rocky’s Cannes Watch Is Hidden Behind a 2,000-Year-Old Coin
Among all the superlative wristwear at Cannes, one watch in particular stuck out—a gold bracelet-like piece dripping with ...
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A 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Was Just Unsealed—and the Mummy Inside is Mind-Blowing
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
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Inside the decadent love affair of Cleopatra and Mark Antony
Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s dream of creating a great empire in the east was destroyed by Octavian’s decisive victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. A Roman coin commemorated the defeat of ...