Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St Hilaire has published a useful list of the objects and documents seized from Moussa "Morris" Khouli, Joseph A. Lewis II, Salem Alshdaifat, and Ayman Ramadan.
For the earlier indictment see here.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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these guys knew exactly what they were doing.breaking up the larger pieces and sending them at seperate times,in seperate packages,to seperate places,come on,how could they argue themselves out of why they went to such extreme measures to get the pieces into the country and on top of all that misslableling the packages.it will be very intresting to see how this develops.
kyri.
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