Among the most-prized missing objects: the Warka Vase, a sacred limestone piece from Uruk; a marble head of Poseidon; and an Assyrian ivory carving. Scholars initially compared the losses to the ...

In October 2023, Wright was sentenced to three years in prison after a foiled plot to sell a £2million ($3.9m at current rates) Chinese Ming vase that had been stolen during a heist at the Museum ...