The family of Riven Flamenbaum, a Holocaust survivor, has been ordered to return an Assyrian gold tablet to the Vorderaistches Museum in Berlin by a state appellate court in Brooklyn. The 3,200-year-old tablet had been looted from the museum at the end of World War II, although it is not clear how Flamenbaum obtained it after […]

Italian police discovered an illegal excavation near the Via Tiburtina, leading to an investigation and the recovery of some 18,000 artifacts looted from archaeological sites near Rome. No arrests have been made, but the names of five people have been turned over to prosecutors. Some of the artifacts were found while searching suspects’ homes. Their notebooks […]