From the web: “Looted in Syria – and sold in London: the British antiques shops dealing in artefacts smuggled by Isis”

July 3, 2015 Uncategorized

Mark Altaweel is surprised at how easy it is. A few hours into a hunt around London, the near-east specialist from the UCL Institute of Archaeology has uncovered objects that, he says, are “very likely to be coming from conflict regions” in Iraq and Syria.

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