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.
Caveat Emptor: What the Dancing Maenad Can Tell Us About the Market for
Looted Art
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Christie's 2019 Auction
In November 2019, ARCA published a blog post raising questions about a
5th-century BCE polychrome antefix depicting a dancing maena...
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