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Looting Matters for Classical Antiquities: Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Ethics

David Gill

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Swansea University Author: David Gill

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DOI (Published version): 10.5334/pp.14

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Forty years have passed since the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. In spite of this there have been major scandals relating to the acquisition of recently-surfaced antiquities by public museum...

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ISSN: 1759-2941 1759-2941
Published: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
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