Cue the tense cinematic score. We’re talking about art crimes, both solved and unsolved! Heists, forgeries, and criminal masterminds abound, as we discuss the “value” of art, and why the black market for art and antiquities continues to thrive.
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8 of the Most Notorious Art Forgeries in History (Mental Floss)
Museum's Collection Of Purported Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Are Fakes, Experts Say (NPR)
All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds (Smithsonian)
Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes (The Independent)
The Global Fight Against Black Market Antiquities Intensifies (The Medialine)
Networks can stop the black-market antiquities trade (ShareAmerica.gov)
Illegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long (The Conversation)