Roger Atwood
Journalist
and Author

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FEATURED WORK

At least three artworks I mentioned in this story for The Guardian in 2006 have since been returned to their country of origin, due to questions about the works' provenance. One of them -- the Euphronios krater, formerly at the Met -- had its restitution to Italy announced on the same day this article appeared. I wish I could attribute that fact to deep sources in the Met or Italy, but it was pure coincidence. Click on the little arrow...

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Archaeology Top 10 Discoveries of 2010: Pyramids of Jaen, January/February 2011 Stonehenge's Ring of Hype (Abstract Only), November/December 2010 ARTnews Britain's Curator of Garbage: Mike Nelson, April 2011 Surveying the Damage in Egypt, June 2011 Cuban Art on the Move: Queloides in Pittsburgh and New York, April 2011 'Newspeak: Part II', April 2011 Past Imperfect: Francesc Torres, May 2010 The Boston Globe A Meddlesome Priest, September 16, 2007

Latin American Research Review Gringo Iracundo: Roque Dalton and His Father, Spring 2011 (Vol. 46, No. 1) Gringo Iracundo: Roque Dalton and His Father, Resumen en español Mother Jones El Salvador's Quiet Revolution, March 16, 2009 El Salvador's Left Turn?, March 11, 2009 National Geographic Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures, June 2008

The New York Times To Catch a Looter, October 13, 2009 Scientific American The Story of the Iraq Museum, August 2005 The Washington Post One With the World, September 20, 2009 Amid War's Looted Art, April 18, 2009 Fool's Gold, November 16, 2008 America the Bullyful, July 26, 2006 Stop, Thieves! Recovering Iraq's Looted Treasures, October 3, 2004 More

“Riveting”

– Chicago Sun-Times

“A perfect detective story”

– The Washington Post

“Compelling, thorough, firsthand”

– American Journal of Archaeology

By Mario Silva, with an
Introduction by Roger
Atwood