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Iraq Embassy list of items looted by ISIS from Mosul Museum
The Iraq Embassy in London has supplied the British Museum with a comprehensive list of items missing from the Mosul Museum as a result of looting by ISIS. The Embassy has asked that the artefacts described be included on the Emergency Red List. The ADA asks its...
Most Egyptian artefacts held abroad were exported legally, says former Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty
Egyptologist professor says it is in his country’s interests to leave them where they are Egypt’s former Antiquities Minister has said that retrieving Egyptian artefacts from abroad is not in Egypt’s interests, news sources from within the country report. Prof....
New find is UK’s earliest example of Iron Age gold
Exciting news that jewellery found in a Staffordshire field is the earliest example of Iron Age gold ever found in Britain. The Daily Telegraph reports that the collection, made up of four twisted metal neckbands, called torcs and a bracelet, was discovered by two...
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Why Have an Antiquities Trade?
A fairly widely held and longstanding view argues that there is no place for trade in, and private ownership of, antiquities. The only place for them is – at best – in situ at their place of origin or – not quite so good – in a museum. The archaeologists, academics...