Looting!

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:44 pm

I'll say!

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:21 am

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShAr ... mNo=801792

An "archaeological heart of darkness" is how Greenberg has described Israel's behavior in the territories since 1967. He used the phrase in a lecture he delivered recently in the wake of a study he conducted over the past few years, which found that about 1,100 excavation permits were issued for digs that took place at 700 sites in the West Bank, not including East Jerusalem. (In some cases more than one permit was issued for the same site.) But documentation of any kind, Greenberg says, exists for only 15 percent of the digs. And even that documentation was obtained by Greenberg with no small effort, by perusing documents and talking to other archaeologists. All his requests to the Civil Administration for a list containing only the names of the sites that were excavated in the West Bank and the names of the excavators drew a negative response. Not even a request based on the Freedom of Information Law helped. Archaeology in the dark.

I'd say this is looting just as sure as if they were selling them.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:34 am

The "politics of archaeology" in the middle east. Another example of history being lost.

Yep Bruce, lost is lost, whatever the mechanism. In some respects, this is worse than looting.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:11 pm

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle ... west_bank/

The tradition goes back centuries, though today it is considered illegal by both Israeli and Palestinian police. But as the Palestinian economy crumbles in the face of Israeli security restrictions and crippling international sanctions against the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority, the ancient treasures buried in the biblical landscape have become a major source of income for many residents of the West Bank

From : Archaeologica News.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:10 pm

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 09,00.html

FARMERS have sold hundreds of gold artefacts stolen from skeletal corpses unearthed at a newly-found ancient burial complex in Indonesia, media reported today.
Skeletons wearing chains of gold rings around their necks, heads, hands and feet were found in the tombs in a rice field at Kendal Jaya village, about 60km east of Jakarta, the Seputar Indonesia daily said.

They were buried with other accessories made of precious stones or gold as well as axes and other pottery articles.

From todays Archaeologica News.