Residents of Kathmandu say that the authorities have turned a blind eye to the plunder of the Hindu Pashupatinath Temple area, which is a World Heritage Site. “Thefts are on the rise. As a result, the beauty of these temples has been diminished,” said Badri Puri, an 82-year-old watchman at Bishworup Temple. Greg Stemm, chief […]

An unnamed Swiss art gallery has surrendered 251 artifacts to Italy. The artifacts had been looted from Etruscan tombs and burials in southern Italy. Greek antiquities police have returned to Italy two medieval frescoes looted from a tomb near Naples in 1982. The Greek authorities recovered the paintings in a raid in 2006.   Greece in […]