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Today, more than a dozen valuable antiquities from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts are back home in Rome. Italian authorities yesterday unveiled vases, pottery, and a sculpture apparently looted from archeological sites in Europe, smuggled overseas, and then bought by the Boston museum.

The MFA returned the items as part of a deal with Italy's Ministry of Culture. Both sides say their agreement will help squash the illegal trade in antiquities, but skeptics question whether that can ever happen.

Listen to WBUR's Curt Nickisch report.

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