In the 1970s, a group of friends in town near Rome spent their weekends digging around the ancient Etruscan tombs that dot the Italian countryside around their homes. These tombaroli, or tomb raiders, ...
The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently ordered the Metropolitan Museum of Art to surrender an ancient vase that it believes was looted from Italy decades ago. The vase, which until recently ...
The vase, which was displayed for more than two decades in the Greco-Roman galleries of the museum, is a vividly painted bell krater depicting Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and creative ...