Fascinating story on the fabled site at Carcemish, on the Turkey/Syria border. Its precarous position has paradoxically meant it was protected by mines meant to deter aggression but happily also deterring looters. Now archaeologists are getting overhead shots by sending up kites. Now all we need are cameras that can upload those images automatically so kiteflying citizens can crowdsource site monitoring.
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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