Starting in 2005, investigative reporter Jason Felch helped to break open a sordid tale of antiquities curators, shady middlemen, and modern looted artifacts in museums across the USA. Over the next seven years, Felch and his co-authors published nearly 40 articles in the LA Times, many of them front page stories. The tale was so complex that it took a book, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum, to lay out the full scope of the decades-long saga.
![[image] Writer and Sleuth Jason Felch Pieces Together the Antiquities Black Market](/sites/default/files/Jason Felch Photo.jpg)