About this season
Docuseries lifting the veil on the global crime wave that is destroying the world's cultural heritage and lining the bank vaults of some of the worst criminals on the planet.
Episodes (8)
1. Robbing the Cradle: The Looting Of The Iraq Museum
Aired 4 April 2023 • 44 min
The Looting of the Iraq Museum: As Baghdad fell to US forces in 2003,15,000 priceless antiquities were stolen. Learn about the efforts to catch the culprits.
2. Blood Antiquities: Islamic State And The Theft Of Syria's Past
Aired 11 April 2023 • 44 min
Rewind and learn about how Western collectors turned a blind eye to ISIS selling Syria's precious ancient past to the highest bidders.
3. Behind The Mask: Robbing The Land Of The Pharaohs
Aired 18 April 2023 • 44 min
A fragment of papyrus worth more than its weight in gold appears at auction, spelling the end for a superstar Oxford don.
4. Thou Shalt Not Steal: Hobby Lobby and the Museum of the Bible
Aired 25 April 2023 • 43 min
5. Stealing Beauty: The Morgantina Goddess and the Getty Museum
Aired 2 May 2023 • 43 min
6. Michael Steinhardt and the Greek Pot of Gold
Aired 9 May 2023
The case of hedge-fund billionaire and collector Michael Steinhardt, who in December 2021 surrendered 180 stolen relics worth an estimated $70million and agreed to an `unprecedented” lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities.
7. Making a Killing: Douglas Latchford and the Cambodian Killing Fields
Aired 19 June 2023
Dealer Douglas Latchford was the go-to expert in Khmer antiquities with connections at the world's biggest museums. But when authorities began to look closer at his collection, his world - and reputation - began to crumble
8. A Deal with the Devil: Hitler's Museum of Stolen Art
Aired 19 June 2023
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.