Rescuing Palmyra: History's lesson in how to save artefacts

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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: More.

It is quite clearly intended to create a future market for ancient coins and support for no-questions-asked trade in ancient artefacts by ensnaring young children in the hobby. A hobby which as I have shown numerous times on��.

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UNESCO immediately called upon the UN Security Council to act to save one of the Middle Easts historic treasures. UNESCO fears Islamic State will destroy Palmyras artifacts, including tombs. Late Sunday night, it became��.

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Looting Matters: The find-spot of the Crosby Garrett helmet

But what is the accurate and reliable collecting history?. Indeed the print edition of todays Independent (Museums ��1.7m whip-round fails to save it Roman mask, Friday 8 October 201, 3) states: The helmet. Worrell, S (2010) LANCUM-E48D73 A ROMAN HELMET Webpage available at: http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404767 [Accessed: Oct 8, 2010 2:19:43 PM]. Isnt that the lesson of the Medici polaroids?. Saving Antiquities for Everyone.

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ARCAblog: Gurlitt Art Collection: Excerpts from the 1945.

After my dismissal in Zwickau (1930) I gave lessons of history of art in the Academy of Applied Art in Dresden, published a book about Kathe Kollwitz (a then famous German woman-artist) public debates against Nazi-art and wrote articles for the Vossische and Frankfurter.. With ISIS extremists within two kilometers of Palmyra, Syria, there are well-founded fears the remains of this great 1st-2nd-century AD Roman city and UNES.. Saving Antiquities for Everyone.

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ARCAblog: Lessons in Looting

The scale and purpose of these looting practices has changed throughout history, and an examination of the evolution of wartime thievery of cultural heritage will allow for an understanding of the trajectory which led to the cultural rape of... BBC News World Edition. 19 Apr. 2009. Merryman, John Henry and Albert E. Elsen. Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Miles, Margaret M. Art As Plunder: The Ancient Origins of��.

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ARCAblog: Cultural Heritage in the Crosshairs: Protecting.

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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues.

The full costs of the artefact hunters digging this up from undisturbed archaeological deposits for fun are not being revealed, but as one may imagine, they are going to be astronomical. Did we really need this dug up right now��.

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ARCAblog: Sir, how much is that (2nd Century B.C.E.) Vase.

A synopsis of the episode on antiquities looting in its written form, and with accompanying video excerpts, is available on the BBC News Magazine website here. The full audio of the radio program is available in MP3 format��.

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: English.

The Vindolanda Tablets voted top treasure in a BBC poll a few years back are bits of wood found in a latrine. So my. 4) Commemorative value: an artefact particularly associated with a particular person (Nuadas silver hand) or event (a fine group of relics from a battlefield of importance) or phenomenon (the Little Ice Age).. Over in the US, in response to the news that the romantic ruins of Palmyra will soon be in ISIL hands, we see more empty talk about the co.

Looting Matters: A Hoard of Byzantine Silver from Bulgaria?

Recent reports in Kathimerini (Artefacts in Greece legally, August 1, 2007; see also Greek prosecutors investigate Bulgarian claim to Byzantine-era silver plates, International Herald Tribune, July 31, 2007) suggest that Greece has.. Collection is Sir Claude Hankes (Hankes-Drielsma) who is perhaps best known for his ethical position over the Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq (see: UN orders Iraq corruption inquiry, with interview, April 22, 2004, from the BBC).

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Just one.

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.. of metal is revolutionising our understanding of early East African history, and recasting Chinas more contemporary role in the region says BBCs correspondent in Africa, Peter Greste (Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history? BBC News, 17th October 2010)... Antiquities from Palmyra on EBay today.

The transparency of the public auction system led to the

Sung-Hee Park confirmed that the transparency of the public auction system combined with the efforts from the U.S. ICE and foreign governments, in this matter, led to the identification of two stolen artifacts... While one thing seems certain, that is that public museums in consumer countries became generally more scared to purchase antiquities without a clean history of ownership and proper documentation, all national laws and. Saving Antiquities for Everyone.

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