With Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts nearing an accord with Italy over its collection of classical art acquired primarily from Italy both before and after the1983 UNESCO curb on antiquities trafficking – I thought it might be interesting to revisit a …
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Opinion – Suzan Mazur

“Bully Bob” Hecht is best known for escorting Italy’s priceless Sarpedon Euphronios vase to the US in 1972 and selling it for personal profit to a private museum that gets public funding — the Metropolitan Museum of Art; his price was $1million. Hecht …
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Article – Suzan Mazur

The first shock is the realization that an airport costing Americans $3 million exists in the polygamist-owned Arizona wastelands of Colorado City. It sits “Spielberg-like” north of the Grand Canyon, east of the Colorado River and serves a handful of planes. …
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A voice Message from FBI in Idaho to me several weeks after contacting them regarding my front page piece just published in the Weekend Financial Times (10/28/2000), “Seven brides for one brother: Plural marriage is rife in the western United States” , an …
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Opinion – Suzan Mazur

I first met University of Arizona political science professor David N. Gibbs about a year ago while researching a story about the Patrice Lumumba matrix. Dr. Gibbs spent a couple of years in Africa in the Peace Corps(Niger, 1979-1980) where his …
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Aside from HBO’s Big Love series generating big laughs at the expense of tens of thousand of women and children who languish in polygamy cults up and down the Rocky Mountains as American Justice looks the other way[ Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/02/2006 …
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Article – Suzan Mazur

Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello now refers to it as an “impropriety”. He seems to believe that the “grand acquisitors” are off the hook following the Met signing an agreement with Italy regarding title transfer back to Italy of the Euphronios …
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Unlike many in the museum world, Metropolitan Museum Ancient Near East expert Oscar White Muscarella was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His childhood was spent in foster homes. And at age ten or eleven he was adopted by his mother’s second …
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Article – Suzan Mazur

In the 1970s oil boom years, before Mu-ammar al-Gaddafi nationalized Bunker Hunt’s oilfield and the silver market collapsed, he and brother Herbert amassed a quarter-ton of ancient coins and some astonishing pieces of ancient art. These were put up for …
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Article – Suzan Mazur

I first met Metropolitan Museum ancient Near East expert Oscar Muscarella in the late 1980s. I went to see him at his office to discuss some safety pins or “fibulas” which had turned up in a couple of tumuli in southwest Turkey along with other artifacts …
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