Christos Tsirogiannis' looted artefact identification work featured on the Manhattan DA's office site

18 Feb 2017

Christos Tsirogiannis' looted artefact identification work featured on the Manhattan DA's office site

Thanks to Dr Tsirogiannis’ work, a trafficked sarcophagus fragment is returning to Greece.

The fragment “which originally dates back to 200 A.D. and depicts a battle between Greek and Trojan warriors, was stolen from Greece in 1988”. It was placed for sale in a Manhattan antiquities gallery where Dr Tsirogiannis was able to match it to a photograph in the Becchina photo archive of looted antiquities.

For more information about this case see: http://manhattanda.org/press-release/manhattan-da’s-office-returns-ancient-marble-sarcophagus-fragment-greece

[image via the website of the Manhattan DA]