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In the last couple weeks, a tiktok account went viral for (allegedly) breaking a 3000 year old bowl for profit. Tragically, the destruction and looting of ancient artifacts is nothing new. Come learn with me about mummies, explosive archaeology, bone stealing, corpse medicine, and a criminal craft store.

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Sources:

Hoarding History: A Survey of Antiquity Looting and Black Market Trade by Alia Szopa

Time Crime: The Transnational Organization of Art and Antiquities Theft by David C. Lane, David G. Bromley, Robert D. Hicks, and John S. Mahoney

The antiquity art market: between legality and illegality by Laurence Massy

The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a Proposed Legal Alternative by Lisa J. Borodkin

The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts by Constance Classen and David Howes

Looting and ‘Salvaging’: How the Wall, illegal digging and the antiquities trade are ravaging Palestinian cultural heritage by Adel H. Yahya

Billionaire's looted art still on display at Israel Museum by Ilan Ben Zion https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...

United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby, US Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usaoedny/pr/...

Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case by Michael Press https://hyperallergic.com/390355/disp...

Hobby Lobby Purchased Thousands of Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq by Emma Green https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...

Heinrich Schliemann Debunked by Spencer McDaniel https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/201...

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Richard Sugg

Touching the Deep Past: The Lure of Ancient Bodies in NineteenthCentury Museums and Culture by Constance Classen

Archaeologists Are Just Beginning to Unearth the Mummies and Secrets of Saqqara by Jo Marchant https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...

The theft of Saharan rockart by Jeremy Keenan