31.   Investigators suspect some missing cultural treasures find their way to private Western collectors who order the thefts.

32.   Italy had no law on damaging cultural treasures until Thursday.

33.   Russia has strict laws against taking items classified as cultural treasures or antiques out of the country.

34.   The Archbishop of Cyprus and the Greek culture minister accused Turkey Monday of systematically looting cultural treasures in the Turkish-occupied north of the island.

35.   The city has been declared a world cultural treasure by the United Nations.

36.   The Nazis also looted art and other cultural treasures from occupied countries.

37.   The two sides agreed to form a German-Ukrainian commission on restoring cultural treasures seized following World War II.

38.   The victorious Soviets looted several million cultural treasures from Germany at the end of the war.

39.   Theft and smuggling of cultural treasures was not unknown in the Soviet era.

40.   Theft of art and cultural treasures is widespread in China.