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.
