As Baghdad falls to US forces in 2003, 15,000 antiquities are stolen from the unprotected Iraq Museum. Two men join forces and race against the clock to track them down.

The curator of the J Paul Getty Museum's collection falls into disgrace, brought down by a jet-setting antiquities dealer.

A tiny fragment of papyrus worth more than its weight in gold is the beginning of the end for superstar Oxford don Dirk Obbink. It's the latest chapter in the pillage of Ancient Egypt, where looting is a way of life.

In December 2021, Michael Steinhardt, the largest private collector of antiquities in the world, is forced to turn over $70 million worth of stolen loot and banned from collecting for life.

It's a routine day for the customs officials at Memphis International Airport when they open a shipment labelled as tile samples. What they discover inside will shake the foundations of one of America's wealthiest families.

In 2012, the search of a Munich flat owned by elderly recluse, Cornelius Gurlitt, uncovers a stash of lost art linked to his father, the man known as Hitler's Art Dealer.