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#antiquities — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antiquities, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to #antiquities in the context of so much killing? The show’s maps dating from earlier this year, however, make it clear that targeting the history and heritage of the Palestinian people has been an intrinsic aspect of the Israeli assault on #Gaza."

    #TrésorsSauvésDeGaza

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n18/jo
    #InstitutDuMondeArabe #Palestine #PalestinianPatrimony #patrimoinePalestinien #patrimonyOfGaza #patrimoineDeGaza

  2. Launched in early June, this digital museum tracks repatriated artifacts to better understand the black market of the antiquities trade, which the museum team estimates to be worth $2.5 billion, calculated from values listed in court documents, auction records, and other such sources.

    science.org/content/article/lo #museums #looted #antiquities #looted_antiquities

  3. Germany returns looted antiquities to Italy as Berlin’s Altes Museum hands over 25 items believed to have been illegally excavated. In gratitude, Italy is loaning artefacts including painted panels from Lucanian graves and bronze armour.

    theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/13

    @TheArtNewspaper #museums #Germany #Italy #looted #antiquities

  4. One day in 2003, Oscar White Muscarella, an archaeologist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, took a stroll through his workplace.
    Wearing a blue seersucker suit spiffed up by a paisley ascot, he pointed at a display of ancient Greek art. “Looted,” he told a Village Voice reporter. His assessment of a glass case of pottery: “All plunder.”
    #obituary #muscarella
    washingtonpost.com/obituaries/

    #looted #art #antiquities #artmarket #archeology #museum #histodon #mastoart #glam #newyork #arthistory #curators

  5. The US has returned its first antiquity to #Palestine, a 2,880-year-old ivory spoon believed to have been #looted from an archaeological site in the Palestinian village of Al-Kum. A repatriation ceremony was held in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
    #archaeology #antiquities #HeritageCrime @archaeodons @histodons
    news.artnet.com/art-world/us-r