Since 2006 some 130 antiquities have been returned to Italy from North American public and private collections. Chasing Aphrodite has an important discussion of the Medici Polaroids and the authors identify material in four further major North American museums.
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Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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