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The Myth of the Illegal Antiquities Market
Victoria Reed is the senior curator for provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She says there's no substantiated evidence that ISIS makes money from black market antiquities. "If you're not asking questions about provenance when you're bringing something into the collection, it's a little bit like wandering into the middle of a traffic intersection without looking both ways"