We usually think of Egypt as the victim of Western collectors vacuuming out its antiquities. But as this story makes clear, the Middle East has its own cosmopolitan collectors willing to traffic looted antiquities from the Americas.
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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