Article on Dealing in Looted Antiquities

There's a major profile in today's New York Times about today's stolen/looted antiquities market and the manner in which items are being smuggled, etc. Long but interesting read. Here's a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/international/23ANTI.html

It is a travisty that this happens. I would say that our knowledge about the past shrinks about .25% every day given the rate such thieving is increasing.

This is why we need Indy heer with us today.

Webley said:

This is why we need Indy heer with us today.

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Well Indy is a looter of antiquities in ToD, selling a priceless artifact to Chinaese gangsters....

That's very true, bob. Funny how the artifacts are now being sold out of China (among others) now.

bob said:

Webley said:

This is why we need Indy heer with us today.

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Well Indy is a looter of antiquities in ToD, selling a priceless artifact to Chinaese gangsters....

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O-ya so I mabe Indy is still out there.

I did a short article on a case a little like that in South America, the main difference though is that the situation turned out really well in the end.
A group of graverobbers/terrorists who had been terrorizing local villages stole a priceless artifact from an archeoligical dig. The archeololgists teamed up with some natives and a few secret service men and ambushed the terrorist camp, as the battle raged one of the archeologists ( I'll call him Indy ) found the artifact and stole it back. The good guys won in the end and the terrorists were all arrested (or killed).

apalehorse said:

Funny how the artifacts are now being sold out of China (among others) now.

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Yeah, but the thing is about those Chinese artifacts is that you really have to have a skilled eye to spot the fakes.



[Edited by Joe Brody on 02-27-2004 at 09:34 pm]