Raiders of the lost art

by Bill Davenport March 23, 2009

Marion True, the archeologist and former curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles took the stand in Italy to refute charges that she particiapted in acquiring some looted art for the Getty during her tenure there. There were no running gun battles, Nazi sumbarines, or ghostly soul-suckers. Archeologists on both sides traded mild accusations of non-cooperation in the already four-year old case, prompting the presiding judge to wonder if the trial will wind up before his retirement in three years.

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