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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Lockdown Looting: Massive Hoard of Stolen Serbian Artifacts Seized [Ancient Origins, 7 January 2021]

Title:
Lockdown Looting: Massive Hoard of Stolen Serbian Artifacts Seized
 
Author:
Ashley Cowie
 
Published:
Ancient Origins, updated 7 January 2021

From the article:
According to  Archaeology News Network, on the 29 th December, officials seized a truck with Romanian license plates at the Srpska Crnja border, attempting to cross between Serbia and Romania. The 46-year-old Serbian citizen claimed he was innocently transporting a load of parquet from Ukraine to Serbia and that he was only carrying two bags of sweets and a couple of pots. However, what the customs officials discovered is being described as of “great historical and archaeological value.”