My colleagues are in a difficult position, and Gil Stein does an excellent job in this story of highlighting the immense losses that have occurred as a result of site looting. Unless it is made clearer, though, that while we all welcome the chance to assist Iraqi archaeologists other programs also need to be established to help cut down on looting, the archaeologists we train may have less and less to excavate.
Six Months for 590 Artefacts: The Case of U.S.-Egyptian Smuggler Ashraf
Omar Eldarir
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ARCA has written a lot about Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a naturalised U.S.
citizen from Brooklyn. The first time was back in 2022 after he was
indicted in th...
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The film of "...looting ... on sites that I have never seen before..." is actually of the legitimate excavations at Kish in the 1920's. You can see more of it at this news feature on YouTube about the Kish project at the Field Museum of Natural History. The Field Museum holds 1200 feet of film from the Kish excavations. As far as I know, it is not all available online.
-Chuck Jones-
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