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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2316278, member: 5682&quot;]Interesting article. These quotes from the article especially caught my attention:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>“There appears to be an interesting geographic divide: Pre-Islamic objects go to Europe and North America, while Islamic art goes to countries of the gulf,” said Markus Hilgert, director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin, who is coordinating a research project on the illicit trade.</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Since 2011, the authorities in Turkey have seized 6,800 objects, a majority of them coins, and are holding them in regional museums until their origins can be determined, according to Necati Anaz, the deputy manager of the International Center for Terrorism and Transnational Crime in Ankara. Dr. Anaz said the challenge was that many of the smallest objects could easily be carried in bags or in clothes.</b></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Wow. It might be only my imagination, but I&#039;ve seen many high-quality Parthian coins on the market these days. Most probably not related, but one can only wonder.</p><p><br /></p><p>This quote from the article kinda gives me the chills <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The authors of <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/yaya-j-fanusie-monumental-fight-countering-the-islamic-states-antiquities-trafficking/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/yaya-j-fanusie-monumental-fight-countering-the-islamic-states-antiquities-trafficking/" rel="nofollow">a recent report</a> by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies observed of customers in the West, “The main buyers are, ironically, history enthusiasts and art aficionados in the United States and Europe — representatives of the Western societies which I.S. has pledged to destroy.”</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Having met several people whose lives have been directly traumatized by the recent ISIS-inspired attacks in San Bernardino, this article certainly gives me pause.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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