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Monday, May 12
May 12, 2008

Last year, five people working for oil companies doing business in Yemen were arrested for trying to smuggle antiquities out of the country, but only one has been prosecuted. Yemeni officials suspect that many executives have gotten away with such theft. Sometimes the artifacts are placed within diplomatic cases or in oil tankers, or are […]

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