Matthew Bogdanos’ team and returned to Italy. The trafficked ... items his team has just seized in the US. What makes the seizure and return of stolen artifacts so difficult is that authorities ...

Italy has celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the US, including ... who donated artifacts to its collections that turned out to have been stolen. Bogdanos, who forged an alliance ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

The US returned dozens of Egyptian artifacts that were smuggled out of the Middle East, AFP reported Thursday. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the items, linked to a global criminal ...

shows the centuries-old artifacts. Officials said they plan to further analyze the finds. Fontane Bianche is along the southwestern coast of Sicily, an island off the southern coast of Italy.

Officials did not specify how the artifacts were ... as well as a stolen copy of Christopher Columbus' 1493 letter describing his discoveries in the Americas to Italy.