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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2878563, member: 44316&quot;]No.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that doesn&#039;t stop governments from proposing rules, supposedly justified by this concern, making it more difficult to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://committeeforculturalpolicy.org/no-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://committeeforculturalpolicy.org/no-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission/" rel="nofollow">https://committeeforculturalpolicy.org/no-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a quote from recent comments of Alan Walker from the Swiss firm NOMOS:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Recently the authorities in the EU undertook a major study to document <i>the terrible threat</i> of &#039;conflict antiquities&#039; being on the market in the EU. Unfortunately, after a great deal of serious research, they could not find any! Here is a commentary on that subject <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62258290&amp;msgid=1658727&amp;act=8BZI&amp;c=329282&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fcommitteeforculturalpolicy.org%2Fno-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission%2F" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62258290&amp;msgid=1658727&amp;act=8BZI&amp;c=329282&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fcommitteeforculturalpolicy.org%2Fno-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission%2F" rel="nofollow">https://committeeforculturalpolicy.org/no-eu-problem-with-terrorist-antiquities-so-lets-legislate-for-it-says-commission/</a>. Again, what is going on? The classical archaeologists I have known in the past include the most outstandingly intelligent people I have ever met; I have always taken whatever they have had to say very seriously, indeed. However, things may have changed. Now we have scholars, who in the old days used to demand proof for every statement, apparently willing to believe that Islamic terrorists are financing themselves with immensely valuable coins that no one in the numismatic market place in Europe and America believes exist. They seem to firmly believe, <i>as a matter of faith, not knowledge</i>, that if there is truly virtually no sign of anything on the market, well, all these priceless treasures must be hidden somewhere, and will doubtless reappear in 10, 20 or 30 years, when &quot;the heat dies down.&quot; This is unlikely in the extreme, but more next time.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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