Thursday, 3 July 2008
Looting in Southern Iraq
Safecorner has posted a video of the slides from a lecture (April 2008), "Protection and Documentation: The Archaeological Sites in Southern Iraq", by Dr Abdulamir Hamdani, Director of Antiquities, Nasiriya Province, Southern Iraq. This puts a different perspective on the situation as presented by The Art Newspaper earlier this week.
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The Stern Collection of Cycladicising Figures
My review article on the Stern collection of Cycladicising figures currently on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has bee...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh... -
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