Getty's Antiquities Buyer Faces Trial over Stolen Goods

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The woman who for many years was in charge of buying archaeological treasures for the Getty Museum of Los Angeles is to stand trial in Rome in July, charged with receiving stolen goods.

The trial is the culmination of an investigation started nearly 10 years ago, which claims to have discovered that, of the many marvels of the ancient world purchased in Italy by Marion True, the 56-year-old curator for antiquities at the J Paul Getty Museum, a huge number had been stolen " a fact of which prosecutors say the curator was well aware.

The case throws a spotlight on the ethics of the curators of the great and wealthy museums of the West, under pressure to …