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.

Thursday 16 August 2018

Up to 30,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria.

UN report suggests that up to 30,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria. This contradicts previous US intelligence that just 6,000 Isis militants are still operating in the two countries. Anyway, watch who you bought those antiquities from.

Paul Barford at 10:39

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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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