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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum

Looted Khmer antiquities moved through criminal networks and institutional acceptance of weak provenance, enabling dealers to sell decapitated statues as rare, beautiful assets.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
9 months ago

Roman-era stele with eagle found in Syria

Digging for treasure was a controlled cronyism system under the Assad regime, and when the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took control of the city in 2012, the lack of oversight led to a proliferation of crude, disorganized looting operations. ISIS instituted a licensing system when it took control in 2014, allowing anybody to dig for antiquities on their land as long as they got a permit first.
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