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I'm an archaeologist working for the Foundation of the Hellenic World. My area of specialisation is the archaeology of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece. My Ph.D. thesis, entitled "The Archaeology of Early Iron Age Thessaly (ca. 1100-700 BC)", was completed at The University of Nottingham in 2002.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Tomb-Robbing trials name Getty and other museums

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Photos seized from a Swiss warehouse paint a story of global skullduggery, Rome prosecutor Paolo Ferri says. The thousands of Polaroids depict how Greek pottery and Roman statues looted from 2,000-year-old tombs in Italy made their way to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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