In 1987, grave robbers in Peru stole the largest gold object ever found from an ancient royal tomb in the archeological site of Sipàn (Atwood 2004). Weighing in at just under 3 pounds, the piece was a backflap, ripped off the skeletal remains from the tomb of an important warrior-priest. Ten years later, the backflap was recovered in the parking lot of a hotel in Philadelphia as part of sting operation conducted on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (FBI 2009). The undercover agents had offered $1.6 million for it (Brodie et al. 2000: 15). In 1998, the backflap was finally returned to Peru and is now on display in the Museo de la Nación in Lima (Rose 1998). © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Passas, N., & Proulx, B. B. (2011). Overview of crimes and antiquities. In Crime in the Art and Antiquities World: Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property (pp. 51–67). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7946-9_3
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