The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin (Update)
The episode explores the murky world of antiquities trafficking, revealing how even elite institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art can be duped into buying looted artifacts — and how a viral photo of Kim Kardashian helped expose a $4 million stolen Egyptian coffin. The deeper stor
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