October
19
/ 2020
The looting of archaeological sites is a problem all around the world and it’s also a huge illegal business. Recently in Poland, authorities have recovered hundreds of stolen historical artifacts in a targeted police operation. These illegal historical artifacts are believed to have been illegally obtained. This latest incident is just another indicator of the scale of the unlawful cultural property trade in Poland and internationally. The cache of illegal historical artifacts was found in Andrychów, in the south of Poland, located in the historical area known as Lesser Poland. A local man had been on the police’s “radar for some time,” reports The First News. It seems that a tipoff led them to search the suspect's property. Officers “received
