Is It Possible to Protect Our Cultural Heritage?

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We all condemn looting. But there is little talk about what can effectively be done about it. Telling people not to buy what may be looted antiquities makes the authorities feel good but has virtually no effect on looting.

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Footnotes

Hananya Hizmi, “Archelaus Builds Archelais,” BAR 34:04.

Konstantinos Politis, “Death at the Dead Sea,” BAR 38:02.

See Hershel Shanks, “Saving a Looted Heritage,” BAR 38:02, p. 47.

See Francis Deblauwe, “Plundering the Past—The Rape of Iraq’s National Museum,” Archaeology Odyssey 06:04.

Francis Deblauwe, “The National Museum in Baghdad—An Update,” Archaeology Odyssey 07:06.

Yosef Ofer, “The Shattered Crown: The Aleppo Codex, 60 Years After the Riots,” BAR 34:05.

Endnotes

Ben Wedeman and Laura Smith-Spark, “ISIS Threatens Iraq’s Priceless Cultural Heritage,” CNN, October 23, 2014, edition.cnn.com/2014/10/22/world/meast/iraq-isis-cultural-destruction.

Graham Bowley, “Antiquities Lost, Casualties of War in Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk,” New York Times, October 3, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/arts/design/in-syria-and-iraq-trying-to-protect-a-heritage-at-risk.html.

Bowley, “Antiquities Lost.”

Hershel Shanks, Judaism in Stone—The Archaeology of Ancient Synagogues (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 86.