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Is It Legal to Buy Antiquities From the Middle East?
Marke toill is a vice deon at university college london. He tracks the trade of antiquities coming from the middle east. For an antique item to be sold legally in the us, it needs to have what they call provinence. That is essentially a kind of sales history,. To prove that it hasn't been taken from its country of origin after 19 70. It's really difficult to track how many illegal antiques there are for sale at any given moment in europe or the us.
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