Egypt
- Hawass Address To Unesco
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) See the above page for the full address. Although I have resigned from my position as head of the antiquities department, due to the current situation, I will continue to do everything in my power to help my country fight against...
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- Ebay Has Chilling Effect On Looting Of Antiquities
Science Daily Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago. "My greatest fear was that the Internet would...
- Ebay Stops Sale Of Iraqi Treasure
Wired Slightly off-topic, but of interest. Following on from David Gill's recent comments about the rise in sale of Egyptian antiquities, and his personal mission to tackle the sale of looted objects world-wide (see his Looting Matters blog), here's...
- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com) "Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum...
Egypt
Crowdsourcing a solution to the illicit antiquities trade?
The Punching Bag (Larry Rothfield)
Jason Felch, lucky dog, will be speaking at Google today about "crowdsourcing a solution to the illicit antiquities trade." Sounds promising, though too vague to evaluate before the fact. If the idea is just to put the power of the crowd to work monitoring auction-house catalogs and eBay, however, that is not going to solve the problem of market-driven looting of archaeological sites. Not that catching Sotheby's or the occasional antiquities dealer holding stolen pieces is without value; the market needs this kind of policing. But the market is global, and most of it is not going to be visible to the crowd. Moreover, the antiquities most in need of protection, unexcavated ones, by definition lack the photographic information (or any other information) that Google is designed to share.
Google might, on the other hand, assist in a different mobilization of crowd-policing, by creating in-country means for locals to report looting in progress to their antiquities police.
- Hawass Address To Unesco
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) See the above page for the full address. Although I have resigned from my position as head of the antiquities department, due to the current situation, I will continue to do everything in my power to help my country fight against...
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- Ebay Has Chilling Effect On Looting Of Antiquities
Science Daily Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago. "My greatest fear was that the Internet would...
- Ebay Stops Sale Of Iraqi Treasure
Wired Slightly off-topic, but of interest. Following on from David Gill's recent comments about the rise in sale of Egyptian antiquities, and his personal mission to tackle the sale of looted objects world-wide (see his Looting Matters blog), here's...
- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com) "Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum...