Destroying Ancient Artifacts for Profit Is Nothing New

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Head to https://squarespace.com/kazrowe to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code KAZROWE. 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. Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1003635-REG/olympus_v314060bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed.html Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t5-2tb-mu-pa2t0b-am/ Edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/keyboard 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/wireStory/billionaires-looted-art-display-israel-museum-82128491 United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby, US Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-forfeit-thousands-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-imported Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case by Michael Press https://hyperallergic.com/390355/dispelling-the-myths-around-the-hobby-lobby-antiquities-case/ Hobby Lobby Purchased Thousands of Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq by Emma Green https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/hobby-lobby-smuggled-thousands-of-ancient-artifacts-out-of-iraq/532743/ Heinrich Schliemann Debunked by Spencer McDaniel https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/09/24/heinrich-schliemann-debunked/ Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Richard Sugg Touching the Deep Past: The Lure of Ancient Bodies in Nineteenth-Century 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/history/archaeologists-are-just-beginning-unearth-mummies-and-secrets-saqqara-180976301/ The theft of Saharan rock-art by Jeremy Keenan