Sentence examples for ancient smuggling from inspiring English sources

Other shipments are transported northward by truck or carried overland across ancient smuggling routes before crossing the Mediterranean into southern Europe.

In 1989 the British "Traffik," a Channel Four production, traced heroin trade along ancient smuggling routes from the poppy fields of Pakistan to the end-user: teenage drug addicts in England.

"The Farmer's Wife" and "Ugly Woman" were seized in June from people trying to sell them to undercover officers in separate incidents in Izmir, a major city on the Aegean Sea and the endpoint of an ancient smuggling route to Greece and Europe.

Now she digs through packages at the post office instead, searching for ancient treasure being smuggled out of the country.

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by Charlie English William Collinss) A former head of international news at the Guardian tells of the librarians who risked their lives in an operation to smuggle ancient manuscripts out of Timbuktu as it became encircled by violent Islamists.

There is little precedent for the case against Ms. Chu and Mr. Jennrich, although if the recent prosecution of a Belgian Sinologist accused of smuggling an ancient sarcophagus out of China is any indication, the punishment may be stiff.

Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts company run by an evangelical billionaire family, is in some trouble for smuggling looted ancient artifacts it purchased because of what appears to be a strong passion for the Bible.

Hobby Lobby, a company most known for loving the Bible a little too much, is in some trouble for smuggling looted ancient artifacts they purchased because of, well, their "passion for the Bible".

BAGHDAD — More than 600 ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq, found and returned by the United States, and then lost again for nearly two years were rediscovered in a storeroom of the office of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Sunday, an Iraqi official said.

Just as ancient forms of networking co-ordinate smuggling trails across different countries, so modern networking allows a Libyan smuggler to get a Sudanese counterpart to collect payments from a migrant's family in Khartoum.

The 4ft marble statue was dug up in the ancient Greek colony of Cyrene before being smuggled into Britain in 2011, according to evidence at Westminster magistrates' court, London.