S10E2 - Word of God: 2. Roberta Investigates
Published: February 19, 2025
Duration: 28:53
A threatening message leads a papyrologist into the shadowy world of online antiquities trading.
On a September morning in 2017, Dr Roberta Mazza opens her WhatsApp to find menacing messages and warnings to "watch her back". How did a respected academic specialising in ancient texts find herself at the crossroads of biblical scholarship and antiquities looting?
Through exclusive interviews, investigative journalist Ben Lewis reveals how Dr Mazza's chance discovery at a Vatican exhibition three years earlier set her on a collision course with one of the world's most ambitious collecting projects. When she spots a rare...