Our top story: As the researchers proceeded to search for textiles, they realized they had stumbled onto a crime scene. A massive theft of pre-Columbian art reveals troubling truths about Texans’ role in the illicit antiquities trade. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/

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Anatomy of a Pre-Columbian Art Heist in Fort Worth

A Texas Christian University professor and students probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the 2001 thefts of dozens of artifacts.

^{Jack Emery (The Texas Observer)}