 He developed relationships with museum staff, and, drawing on his knowledge of ancient civilizations, as well as his knowledge of police work, having been a criminal prosecutor in New York for many years, tells how he and the team were able to recover a huge amount of priceless antiquities which had been looted from the museum in the past days, and even years.He goes into great detail about the theme that the US let the museum be looted while it protected the oil ministry... a version of events that was widely reported.Bogdanos goes into great detail about why this story is not very accurate.