Every once in a blue moon... I wonder what happens to the cultural artifacts, the art work of war-torn, politically destabilized countries.
Then I remember, there are companies who specializes on taking advantage of scenarios of this nature, not to say that that is in its core "Hobby Lobby" but they have been hit with charges revolving around the "illegal imports" (I'm going to call is smuggling because of the context) apparently starting in 2009 collecting artifacts from the Arab nations in hopes to obtain biblical artifacts, in which they did just that, packages where flagged after shipping from Israel, the packages obtain contained something around 5,500 artifacts and what can be disputed is the unnamed dealer they paid 1.5 million US $ for these historic tablets.
unfortunately, this is not the most unheard of thing, and culture continues to be the hardest concept to protect.
a better coverage can be found on the NY TIMES website,
link below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/hobby-lobby-artifacts-smuggle-iraq.html
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