The pieces, eight mosaics and four sculptures, were looted in the cities of Albaida, Apolonia and Cirene and found in 2018 in the warehouses of an antique dealer in Barcelona.
November 24, 2023
Updated at 6:42 p.m.
“Shut up, don’t say that on the phone!” Before the agents of the Historical Heritage Brigade arrested in 2018 the Catalan antique dealer Jaume Bagot, until then considered a “prodigy” of ancient art, and his partner Oriol Carrerasthey tried…
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Monica Arrizabalaga
Monica Arrizabalaga
Editor specializing in archeology and heritage. Author of “Spain, the Imaginary History” (Espasa) and co-author, with Federico Ayala, of “La Gaceta Olvidada” (Libros.com).