April 4, 2012
Caveat emptor when buying looted artefacts
Quite aside from all the other ethical issues about purchasing ancient artefacts on the black market at bargain prices, there is also a high chance, that you might not get exactly what you thought you were paying for. Quite why people think that someone who would loot ancient sites is likely to be true to their word, in what they claim something is is another matter.
One also has to ask, how someone expected to pass off as legitimate, exact copies of works from a major museum.
From:
BBC News
3 April 2012 Last updated at 16:23
‘Ancient’ Greek statue found in sheep pen is fakeAn “ancient” Greek statue found in a sheep pen north-west of Athens last week has now been deemed a fake.
At first, archaeologists at Greece’s Culture ministry thought the figure of a woman dated from the 6th century BC.
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