January 6, 2022
…their ancestors to feed their families in times of want.[6] There is little evidence of a US market for Costa Rican antiquities, but historically, there was antiquities collecting by fruit…
May 5, 2022
…13, 2018, https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/405418-pakistan-loans-ancient-budha-monument-to-switzerland [24] See Appendix 2, Act VII of 1976, Antiquities Act, 1975. This law explicitly repealed The Antiquities Act, 1968 (XIV of 1968), and the Antiquities Ordinance, 1975…
July 30, 2016
…in June 2016. The presentation sheds new light on the history of the legal antiquities trade, the actual size of the antiquities market, and the supposed ISIS/antiquities connection. Mr. Geerling…
May 22, 2017
…Egyptian government has yet to be acted upon. Magda Haroun, who is in her sixties, is the youngest surviving Jew living in Egypt. She appealed directly to Egyptian President Sisi…
September 24, 2019
…to be democracies (Egypt, Syria, Iran, for example). Egypt outlawed the sale and export of its cultural heritage completely in 1983 via the Egyptian Law on the Protection of Antiquities,…
September 24, 2019
…ISIS’s exploitation of antiquities is the cache of documents seized in a US Special Forces raid on Abu Sayyaf, the nominal head of ISIS’s antiquities operation, in May 2015. Those…
May 17, 2021
…RAND, p.49. [110] US Rewards for Justice, Trafficking in Oil and Antiquities Benefitting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) https://rewardsforjustice.net/english/trafficking_oil_and_antiquities.html. The inclusion of antiquities with oil is…
November 30, 2017
A little known Coptic museum in Egypt would like more visitors, more money and a better security system. Egypt’s disorganized museum and antiquities cultural management system has left a small…
December 31, 2023
…in antiquities. Sadly, Bogdanos is joined by academic enablers, who remain unfazed by his outrageous claims about a (non-existent) billion-dollar antiquities market. They surely know better. Antiquities form by far…
January 31, 2017
…best way to convey its intention. “An antiquities tax, tailored to fall more heavily on antiquities with weaker provenance or extremely high prices, and channeled into an antiquities-protection “Superfund” (as…