Email this article Corinth Loot Returned Volume 54 Number 2, March/April 2001 by Mark Rose The FBI has handed over to Greek officials nearly 300 artifacts stolen from the Archaeology Museum in Corinth in April 1990 (see ARCHAEOLOGY, July/August 1990, p. 22). Valued at over $2 million, the objects were recovered in 1999 when the FBI, acting on a tip that the artifacts had been consigned to Christie's for auction, found them hidden in crates of fresh fish in Miami (see "Corinth Loot Found Under Fresh Fish," November/December 1999). Two men are now on trial in Greece for the theft. Two others, thought to be in Venezuela, are being tried in absentia. See "Corinth Antiquities Returned" for more information. © 2001 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/0103/newsbriefs/corinth.html Share this page:   Share Stay up-to-date on news and new features on our website. Click here to sign up. Buy current & back issues: See what's available!

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