Tuesday, December 15, 2009

BBC News | Education | Archaeologists want anti-looting organisation

BBC News | Education | Archaeologists want anti-looting organisation:
The delegates will discuss the loss of historical evidence through the destruction of finds by looters and the links with an international black market in illegally-acquired antiques.

The research centre, which monitors looting and the trade in antiquities, says that this growing illegal industry has been the key factor behind 'the large-scale plundering of archaeological sites and museums around the world'.

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