August, 2009

NPR: Italy Cracks Down on Raiders of Lost Art

Link: NPR: Italy Cracks Down on Raiders of Lost Art

NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli reports: “The expert who helped nail down the exact spot where the pot was found is Vernon Silver, an American journalist with a degree in archaeology from Oxford. His new book, The Lost Chalice, traces the story of the looted vase’s travels from a tomb in Italy to Switzerland to New York and back to Italy through the labyrinthine world of smugglers and shady dealers in an illicit trade that fed a network of American collectors and institutions.”