looted
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Looted artefacts from the Asante kingdom are finally on display in Ghana, 150 years after British colonisers took them.
From BBC • May 1, 2024
Looted money paid for jewelry and luxury art and helped finance Hollywood films like “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
The pair relied on interviews and documents leaked from the Getty for their 2011 book, “Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2015
There's lots of interesting stuff going on in the culture industries: Looted antiquities seized.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2015
“Replaced. Sacked. Looted like a trophy and carted off—away from my beloved homeland. I lost so much. I swore I would never forgive. Neither would my children.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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