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Editors’ Page: How to Stop Looting

A modest proposal

By Hershel Shanks

You can read lots of stories about looting—how terrible it is—but seldom do the stories end with any practical solutions. This one will be different. The place is in Jordan, on the southeastern shore of the Dead Sea. One would hardly expect to find major archaeological remains at the lowest spot on earth (nearly 1,300 feet below sea level) in as inhospitable a climate as one is likely to encounter—blazingly hot, practically waterless and frighteningly isolated. Contrary to what you might suppose, however, the area was quite heavily populated in several historical periods. We know this primarily because when […]

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Endnotes

1.

Konstantinos D. Politis, “Rescue Excavations in the Nabataean Cemetery at Khirbat Qazone 1996–1997,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, vol. 42 (Amman, 1998).

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Politis, “Survey and Rescue Collections in the Ghawr As-Safi,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, vol. 42 (Amman, 1998).

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Politis, “Ghawr As-Safi.”

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Politis, “Ghawr As-Safi.”

5.

Politis, “The Looting of an Ancient Site,” Minerva, vol. 5 no. 6 (November/December 1994).

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Politis, “Biblical Zoar.”

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Politis,“Biblical Zoar.”

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Politis,“Biblical Zoar.”

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Politis,“Biblical Zoar.”

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Politis,“Biblical Zoar.”

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Politis, “Biblical Zoar.”