Quoted by ISNA; An exhibition includes hundreds of monuments that had been missing earlier, some of which have been followed by the Special Police Special Unit for decades, now for the first time at the Naples National Archaeological Museum in Italy.
The museum in southern Italy is a place of about 6,000 historic objects seized or seized by the Special Police Unit to protect the Italian Cultural Heritage. The new exhibition entitled “Reconstructed Treasures: Crime Stories and Stolen Disclosures” includes five of these objects, including ancient pottery, coins, bronze, marble sculptures, dishes, decorative items, weapons and armor.
According to an official statement, the exhibition, designed by Massimo Osana, the director general of the Museum and Maria Lucia Jiako, the head of the Naples Museum Research Department, was designed on “the complexity of hidden in the illegal business of cultural works” as well as the “intensity of crimes that threaten national cultural heritage”.
“Recovered Treasures” is also a result of an important process of legal investigation, in collaboration with Naples Prosecutor’s Office, Police Special Police Police to protect the Italian Cultural Heritage and Federico II University of Naples to determine the legal status of 6,000 seized objects in the museum collection.
According to the Associated Press, the works at the exhibition cover the “Archaic” era (approximately 1 to 2 BC) to the Middle Ages.
For decades, looters, thieves, and antique traffickers have focused on extracting and selling ancient objects from important historical sites such as Pompeii and Herkolanium.
The Associated Press also reported that some of these looters have used underwater, GPS, Sonar and UAVs to extract treasures from drowning ships and ancient sites in the Mediterranean.
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