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2. Antiquities trade - Wikipedia

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   Artifacts are often those that have been discovered and unearthed at archeological digs and then transported internationally through a middleman to often unsuspecting collectors, museums, antique dealers, and auction houses. [5] The antiquities trade is much more careful in recent years about establishing the provenance of cultural artifacts.

3. Giacomo Medici (art dealer) - Wikipedia

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   Giacomo Medici is an Italian antiquities smuggler and art dealer who was convicted in 2004 of dealing in stolen ancient artifacts.His operation was thought to be "one of the largest and most sophisticated antiquities networks in the world, responsible for illegally digging up and spiriting away thousands of top-drawer pieces and passing them on to the most elite end of the international art ...

4. Archaeology - Wikipedia

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   Archaeology stimulates interest in ancient objects, and people in search of artifacts or treasure cause damage to archaeological sites. The commercial and academic demand for artifacts contributes directly to the illicit antiquities trade. Smuggling of antiquities abroad to private collectors has caused great cultural and economic damage in ...

5. craigslist - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Classified advertisements website Craigslist Inc. Logo used since 1995 Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008 Type of business Private Type of site Classifieds, forums Available in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Founded 1995 ; 30 years ago (1995 ...

6. Grandmother finds rare ancient artifact — but doesn’t tell ...

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   A woman in Poland found a unique stone in a field and kept it. Over 50 years later, archaeologists got their first look at the stone — and identified it as a rare ancient artifact.

7. 2,800-year-old serpent artifact is a ‘missing link’ to ...

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   The stone artifact, found in Israel, helps explain a popular motif that appears in Greek mythology and the Hebrew Bible. 2,800-year-old serpent artifact is a ‘missing link’ to Hercules ...

8. Man picks up sharp stone — and finds 5,600-year-old artifact ...

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   He picked up a sharp stone — and discovered an ancient artifact, the Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments wrote in an April 8 Facebook post. Archaeologists identified the carved stone as a ...

9. Luristan bronze - Wikipedia

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   Luristan bronze objects came to the notice of the world art market from the late 1920s and were excavated in considerable quantities by local people, "wild tribesmen who did not encourage the competition of qualified excavators", [10] and taken through networks of dealers, latterly illegally, to Europe or America, without information about the contexts in which they were found. [11]