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Divining Provenance
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The Middle East Antiquities Market Is Full of Loopholes
Marka toel sten tracks the trade of antiquities coming from the middle east. According to adnon, artifacts that would fetch tens or hundreds of dollars in syria could be sold for thousands of dollars in secret. It's really difficult to track how many illegal antiques there are for sale at any given moment in europe or the us. For antique item to be sold legally in the us,. Or in europe, it needs to have what they call provinonce. That is essentially a kind of sales history, to prove that it hasn't been taken from its country of origin after 19 70.
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