"I think you have a very good case to make about your artefacts," he said when asked about the antiquities by a Greek reporter.
My social media feeds sizzle with the anger of people from across the globe: over the racism of cops in Ferguson, US, over the destruction of antiquities by Isis, over Jihadi John, over Netanyahu's 26 standing ovations and, above all, over the alleged criminal behaviour of bankers.
We expected the devastation of antiquities and it hasn't happened.
Their bodies were cut up for parts that became sought-after antiquities in colonial homesteads across Australia and in cultural, medical and educational institutions across the US, Britain and continental Europe.
The antiquities were acquired by the British Museum in 1816.
The construction of a splendid museum at the foot of the Acropolis, purpose built to house the antiquities within view of the masterpiece that epitomises the Periclean age, was meant to be a debate shifter, more eloquent than any number of legal arguments.
Then some archaeologists from Israel's antiquities authority used a grant from a Jewish-Mexican benefactor to erect pews and shelves of prayer books to turn it into a synagogue.
Merrin, an antiquities dealer, has a second-century gold cup from the Iranian Marlik culture.
IRS audits in the past have apparently found nothing wrong with Mr Munitz's pay and perks; Italian justice, slow-moving at the best of times, may decide that Ms True was an innocent participant in the transfer of looted antiquities.
The judicial story begins soon after 2003 when the authorities seized hundreds of items from Oded Golan, a well-known antiquities collector, and charged him with forgery.
EMILE GUIMET'S bequest of the Asian treasures he had bought on a round-the-world tour in the 1870s fuelled the French craze for Asian antiquities and helped put the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques on a par with the British Museum and the Baur Collection in Geneva.This summer the French collection has added a twist.
