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Looting History (2023)
Docuseries lifting the veil on the global crime wave that is destroying the world's cultural heritage and lining the bank vaults of some of the worst criminals on the planet.
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Release Date:
Tue, Apr 04, 2023
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 44
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 44
Season 1:
The Looting of the Iraq Museum: As Baghdad fell to US forces in 2003,15,000 priceless antiquities were stolen. Learn about the efforts to catch the culprits.
Rewind and learn about how Western collectors turned a blind eye to ISIS selling Syria's precious ancient past to the highest bidders.
A fragment of papyrus worth more than its weight in gold appears at auction, spelling the end for a superstar Oxford don.
The case of hedge-fund billionaire and collector Michael Steinhardt, who in December 2021 surrendered 180 stolen relics worth an estimated $70million and agreed to an `unprecedented” lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities.
Dealer Douglas Latchford was the go-to expert in Khmer antiquities with connections at the world's biggest museums. But when authorities began to look closer at his collection, his world - and reputation - began to crumble
In 2012, the search of a Munich flat owned by elderly recluse, Cornelius Gurlitt, uncovers a stash of lost art linked to his father, the man known as Hitler's Art Dealer.