Statue of Ornith. Credit: Staatliche Museen zu BerlinGerman researchers have tracked down and documented hundreds of antiquities located in Berlin museums that were looted from the island of Samos, Greece.
A report in Deutsche Welle on Wednesday says that a book was just published after years of research documenting in detail the looting of antiquities between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The book “Constantinople — Samos — Berlin. Forfeiture, division of finds and clandestine export of antiquities on the eve of the First World War” consists of essays that reconstruct in detail the history of excavations of the then Royal (today: National) Museums in Berlin on Samos.
