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What's needed is a comprehensive international strategy to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
Looting of Iraq's national museum began on April 10, 2003. At least half of the artefacts taken remain missing and disturbingly, the illegal trade in stolen antiquities has grown in the years since.
Looting of antiquities is a serious problem, but looters are not always just motivated by greed.
Sales of antiquities legally excavated are just as ethically problematic as those likely looted.
Unpaid volunteers are negotiating with Islamic State and facing military attacks as they try to save Syria's ancient cities.
Work is already underway to repair the damage to the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, but we need to question if technology will take things too far.
Our past is under threat from "nighthawks" - illegal metal detectorists who go out at night to seek their fortune from protected ancient monuments. A Bristol archaeologist investigates.
Recently in Aleppo, Syria, the Jabha Shamiya militia has started carrying out a new urban warfare strategy: tunnel bombing. Aside from the human damage wrought by this tactic, it is also extremely damaging…
Iraq has a long and rich heritage, home for thousands of years to mighty empires – Assyria and Babylon, the Abbasid caliphate – that ruled the region once known as Mesopotamia, widely held as the cradle…
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Research associate, Newcastle University
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Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History, UCL
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Education Manager, Sydney University Museums, University of Sydney
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Post-Doctoral research fellow, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies, UCL
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Doctoral Researcher in Classics, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, University of Kent
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