Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Egypt Looting: Dashur Magazine Robbed, How?

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* Over the past two weeks attempts have been made by the Egyptian authorities to play down the news of the looting of archaeological sites ...

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Depth Advantage

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- The conservation group Heritage Action has sent an open letter to the UK's Archaeology Forum,* concerning 'artefact hunting using ...

Friday, 11 February 2011

Museum Raid an Inside Job?

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. Egyptologist Kara Cooney on Craig Ferguson (Feb 8, 2011) states that there are many Egyptologists who suspect that Mubarak ordered his me...

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Munich Dealer Loses Some of his Stock

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* Over in Bavaria, apparently the 'Lootier Land' of Germany where the Minister of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and T...

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

How Many Looters did you Think Were Caught? Down to "One Looter" now...

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* Latest news from Cairo Museum, this time (and I think for the first time) the museum director speaks out for himself. Well, now we are bei...

No More Mucking About: the Jefferies Affair

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* I'm putting this here as much as a public record than anything. Since December there has been an unnecessary and unpleasant fuss gener...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

UK Antiquities Dealer to be Extradited?

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* Malcolm Hay, 60, who has sold antiquities to museums worldwide, was described by Richard Falkiner, member of the Treasure Valuation Com...

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Paul Barford: British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.

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