2003. Baghdad falls to US forces. Over the 36-hour period the Iraq Museum is unprotected, 15,000 antiquities are stolen. Time is ticking as two men join forces, determined to hunt them down.
Social media allowed ISIS to bombard screens across the globe with propaganda videos. But behind that campaign was a lucrative black-market network exploiting Syria's precious ancient past.
A tiny fragment of papyrus worth more than its weight in gold is the beginning of the end for superstar Oxford don, Dirk Obbink. It's the latest chapter in the pillage of Ancient Egypt.
It's a routine day for the customs officials at Memphis Tennessee airport when they pry open a shipment labelled 'tile samples'. What they find inside is a priceless collection of antiquities.
The curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum's antiquities collection, Marion True, is in disgrace. Her downfall is brought about by jet-setting antiquities dealer, Robin Symes.
December 2021 - Michael Steinhardt, the largest private collector of antiquities in the world, is forced to turn over $70 million dollars worth of stolen loot and banned from collecting for life.
Douglas Latchford lives the jet-set life. As the go-to expert in Khmer antiquities, his collection rivals Cambodia's National Museum. But has his extensive art collection been looted?
The search of a flat in Munich in 2012, owned by elderly recluse Cornelius Gurlitt, uncovers one of the most extraordinary stashes of lost art ever discovered.