It is impossible to say how much of the cultural heritage of Serbia ends up in the hands of smugglers, and into private collections, but according to some estimates, archaeological objects leave Serbia daily,said Dodervic.
Smuggling of artifacts out of Serbia is not the new problem. In 2003, 75 valuable coins from 6 B.C. vanished after an excavation in the area. In 1995, of the 40,000 Roman silver coins unearthed at a dig, almost 30,000 disappeared across the border.
