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541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin

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The Transit Point of Antiquities in the United States

In the United States, the hardest thing about an antiquity is getting it in through US customs. Dubai has become a pretty major transit point for antiquities traffickers. If you go back to the 90s, it was Switzerland. And why did they change? There was a huge scandal in which the Swiss authorities finally raided a warehouse of an Italian dealer named Giacomo Medici.

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