Edouard Planche, program specialist in the Cultural Heritage Protection Treaties Section of UNESCO's Culture Sector, has kindly agreed to allow me to repost the comment he made on Derek Fincham's Illicit Cultural Property blog, regarding actions that UNESCO is taking in Egypt:
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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