One of the world’s finest collections of ancient Near Eastern art belongs to a single individual, and he wants to give it away. Elie Borowski, perhaps the last of the great dealer-scholar-collectors, has amassed a dazzling array of over 1,700 artifacts, which he has placed in the Lands of the Bible Archaeology Foundation. The collection ranges from Sumerian to Phoenician to Egyptian and Byzantine—spanning more than three millennia. Borowski, 71, dreams of a museum and study center in Jerusalem that will hold and display these unique pieces. In this issue of BAR we look at both the man and […]