December 13, 2019
…now the property of the British Museum, one of the greatest of the world’s museums, a treasure house of antiquities open to tourists, art lovers, and scholars from across the…
August 15, 2020
…police station into a mangled museum of Gandhara art of over 30 pieces. “We’ll open a museum right here,” joked one of the police officers. “Here, you want to take…
February 3, 2023
…the open session. The majority of oral comments addressed only the MOU with Cambodia. Along with people speaking from an institutional vantage point, several individuals, primarily displaced Cambodian citizens, addressed…
July 11, 2019
…in which the pictures complement or expand upon the written content, the texts and the images in these manuscripts are sometimes wholly independent narratives. In the examples on display, extracts…
January 3, 2023
…to a widespread misunderstanding that ISIS is the main culprit when it comes to looting of archaeological sites and damage to monuments.”… “Using satellite imagery, our research is able to…
February 2, 2021
…12,000 Year Old Town in Kurdish Region, Cultural Property News, September 30, 2019, https://culturalpropertynews.org/hasankeyf-turkey-ilisu-dam-will-inundate-12000-year-old-town/ [4] Iconic Ancient Temple is Latest Victim in Civil War, National Geographic, January 30, 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/syria-temple-ain-dara-destroyed-archaeology/…
February 20, 2019
…of Bibi Seshambe.[i] The text was in Uzbek.[ii] What follows is the portion of the risola that contains the story. I have retained the original Persian and Uzbek words in…
November 23, 2018
…incidence of actual theft or clear wrong done to indigenous or minority communities. To educate the public in the complexities of these issues, as well as to dispel widely held…
October 31, 2017
…By Plismo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Burger studied Chinese at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). He continued his independent researches as a German teacher resident in Beijing…
April 8, 2020
…their culture,’[1] for others, selling sculptures to outsiders is the equivalent of the tradition of leaving them to rot in the forest,[2] still others gave up old idols to missionaries…