Nearly all important antiquities collections either deliberately or inadvertently include looted material. Finally, much of that material is starting to be repatriated.
So long as rich individuals and institutions are willing to spend millions of dollars on foreign antiquities, looters will have a financial incentive to continue their destructive trade.
Anything that causes such people to stop buying antiquities — even licit ones — is therefore very welcome. Given how hard it is to be sure of provenance, the safe course now for any collector should be to just stop collecting.
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