How to pronounce “loot”(verb) in English

looted and they would publish and display the object and let everybody see it and so if anybody had a claim against it they could come forward and the Getty said, "Well, if

You'd be looted before your body hit the ground."

It had been looted just a few years earlier from a tomb outside of Rome, smuggled through a network of dealers, and presented to the Met.

trying to identify looted antiquities -- Jason Felch: Yes.

trip because he said that you will loot that I owed him some amount of money if they didn't launch within four seconds

Over 1,500 stores were looted.

American museums had been buying recently looted antiquities with knowledge for decades.

India says this thing was recently looted and smuggled out of the country."

You know these objects were looted.

Because I was taking pictures of looters that were looting out in the Oakland riots.

sub-saharan Africa rebel warlords have looted minerals and diamonds and smuggle them in order to fund

And so if we think that that object was looted we're going to put import restrictions on it and not allow it into the country."

She was accused by Italy of trafficking in looted art with some of the other dealers who were implicated.

There are these thousands and thousands of photographs of recently looted antiquities that have been seized by Italian authorities and Greek authorities.

Are they going to be looting?

And there was a big outcry and there were rumors that it had been looted and people thought they knew the guys who had looted it, but the Met stood by its guns and said,

He was arrested or indicted under an alleged conspiracy to traffic near Eastern material recently looted Egyptian antiquities, smuggled through Bahrain into New York City where they

And I think no one has an interest right now in getting caught with looted antiquities.

caught before he wound up engaging in 50 billion dollars worth of fraud and looting lots of institutions and individuals out of all of their funds?

And under not just foreign law but also American law, knowingly buying something that had been looted from a country that had a patrimony law like Italy's that said, "Objects in the

This policy would basically put the onus of proving that the statute was looted not on the Getty Museum but on someone else, anyone else.

We're gonna say, 'Do have any proof that the statue was looted, speak now or we're gonna buy this thing.'" They would also get a warranty from the dealer Symes saying that he warranted that this wasn't

They began going through these Polaroids and finding all kinds of really amazing archaeological objects that had been recently looted; tens of thousands of them.

and by journalists we were able to piece together the kind of story of how this thing had been looted from an archaeological site in central Sicily, a site called Morgantina, a very important

One of my favorite examples, though, has to be Francis Drake looted his way around the world, gaining a lot of silver from the Spanish Empire.

The Getty bought the Statute of Aphrodite for $18 million, it was a record price at the time and American museums kept buying looted antiquities really for the next few

So, thanks to Giacomo's vanity we have the wonderful pictures of Giacomo posing next to these looted objects.

They found that in their, in the conclusions in their own internal attorneys, that the museum had apparently been knowingly buying looted antiquities for decades, that this

And so this is an important discovery, it's an important understanding about how sophisticated the supply chain in this antiquities, in these looted antiquities became.

their finest pieces of classical antiquities when confronted with this really clear evidence, just from the Medici archive remember, of the looted origins of these things, these

So cash markets insofar as they seem to first emerge will tend to emerge right around where ever armies are parked or where they have recently looted things and are trying to get

And the Ministry of Finances being looted and

Sadly, the Circus Maximus, which was much more lavish originally that was looted for building material, et cetera, et cetera.