So, after listening to this interview, I need to read this book. The trade in ancient art does raise a lot of very tough questions though... Do art and artifacts need to stay in situ? Or are they better spread around the world, the better to share the greater cultural heritage? More to the point, who owns them? Who can own them?
Anyway, I liked the excerpt on the interview's website and I'm a sucker for a good heist story... Still, I just got a massive stack of book from the library. So, I guess when I'm done with The Poison King: the life and legend of Mithradate, Spartacus War, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and Last Call: the rise and fall of Prohibition, I'll have the time.
What? The Romans drank. ;)
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