It is not uncommon to hear archaeologists and cultural heritage advocates argue that looting stems largely from ignorance on the part of locals about the past they are destroying, and that the best way to stop those who would dig is to educate them to care about and embrace heritage as their own. That view is difficult to square with this news report about metal detectorists digging on the battleground at Gettysburg.
More returns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Tarentine funerary relief
Source: Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Manhattan DA has provided limited
details about the recent return of antiquities to Italy [...
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