Four museums in southern California were searched by Federal agents looking for documents related to Southeast Asian and First Nations artifacts. The authorities think that two men, a gallery owner and a smuggler, helped art collectors obtain illegal antiquities in order to donate them to museums for tax breaks. In northern Iraq, there are plans […]

We’re all aware that looting is a crime, but here’s a new twist seen in U.S. National Parks. “Collectors will dial 911 to draw park resources away and give themselves time to get into areas to quickly pick up their work,” says Mark Gorman, chief ranger at Badlands National Park. Now that’s just low. The […]