Matthew Bogdanos’ team and returned to Italy. The trafficked ... items his team has just seized in the US. What makes the seizure and return of stolen artifacts so difficult is that authorities ...

The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts worth millions of dollars to Italy after learning that they had been stolen and sold during the late 1990s by an international ...

assessing paperwork and provenance claims for artifacts provided by their owners, as well as undertaking technical tests to best confirm a piece’s true origins.)Most of the recent items returned to ...