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Combating the looting & destruction of cultural heritage | Supporting Ethical Museum Practice #archaeology #trafficking #artefacts

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Stolen bbc.com/news/world-europe-44…

Artefacts worth €40m recovered in raids across Europe

Police swoop on dozens of properties in Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK after a four-year probe.

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An Illegal Archeological Dig in the West Bank Raises Questions About the Museum of the Bible hyperallergic.com/447909/an-…

An Illegal Archeological Dig in the West Bank Raises Questions About the Museum of the Bible

The Museum of the Bible has been funding a number of scholarly projects, including an illegal excavation in the West Bank that will certainly influence how the public understands the Bible and the...

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#Colonialism and #archaeology: The legacy lives on middleeastmonitor.com/201501… via @MiddleEastMnt

Colonialism and archaeology: The legacy lives on

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How can Western museums reconcile respect for cultural property with hogging the world’s antiquitie? english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon…

The politics of cultural heritage - Opinion

How can Western museums reconcile respect for cultural property with hogging the world’s antiquities

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Heritage under fire (ABC, Australia) Listen to Professor Peter Stone’s lecture on cultural property protection at Deakin University, Australia. ab.co/2Cm0FaR abc.net.au/radionational/pro…

Heritage under fire - ABC listen

The monumental scale of heritage destruction in the Middle East has spurred international efforts to protect cultural property during conflict. Why is it important and how can it be done?

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Berlin Museums chief calls for rules on restitution of colonial artefacts: theartnewspaper.com/news/ber…
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Why do archive files on Britain’s colonial past keep going missing? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Why do archive files on Britain’s colonial past keep going missing? | Siobhan Fenton

Around 1,000 files have disappeared while ‘on loan’ to the government. This sort of accident is happening too often for comfort, says Siobhan Fenton

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“most controversial episodes in 20th-century British history have vanished” theguardian.com/uk-news/2017…
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Buyer Beware: Looted Antiquities Flood Online Sites Like Amazon, Facebook wsj.com/articles/the-online-…

Buyer Beware: Looted Antiquities Flood Online Sites Like Amazon, Facebook

A flood of potentially stolen art objects from the Middle East is showing up on Amazon, eBay, Facebook and WhatsApp, often ensnaring unsuspecting buyers

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Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History hyperallergic.com/407921/act…

Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History

The early-morning action, by a new activist group calling itself the Monument Removal Brigade, is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue's removal.

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#nationalism #identity #Museums #softpower prospectmagazine.co.uk/magaz…
"methodology has become the straitjacket that every new researcher has to wear to discover knowledge" generated.bit.ly/2xDLPJ5
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Statues are not the issue. These are ‘history wars’, a battle over the past | David Olusoga | Opinion | The Guardian amp.theguardian.com/commenti…

Statues are not the issue. These are ‘history wars’, a battle over the past | David Olusoga

It can only be a good thing that national stories so long seen as established fact are being challenged, both in the US and in Britain

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This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view? theguardian.com/us-news/2017…

The 'slave block' in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go?

A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?

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Collections tainted by the blood of slaves dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a…

Tainted by the blood of slaves 

Admission free... When you next read those words at the entrance to one of our national museums, thank Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection formed the core of the British Museum.

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaeology and Imperialism bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9g…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaeology and Imperialism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.

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