The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand

I remember reading a book about an FBI investigator who specialized in recovering stolen art and it mostly turned out to be low-rent sad hucksters. The chase is always more interesting than the stories of who took them.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6827652-priceless

I've heard circular reasoning before, but not one right in the title!