Footnotes 3.16.2010

• 3,000 year-old wooden sarcophagus is returned to Egypt after being confiscated at the Miami Airport.
• A Philadelphia museum sues over $1.5 million art swindle.
• Suit filed over fake Native American art.
• Efforts to battle sophisticated art-theft rings are halted by public misconception regarding the importance of art theft.
• Unnoticed Chinese vase goes for 70 times it's asking price at a public auction in Ireland.
• Sotheby's will sell at auction a Nazi-looted Jean Baptiste Camille Corot painting.
• Egypt and Ecuador agree to return looted antiquities to their country of origin.
• Three Russian brothers dominate the legal forgery market.