Monday, November 14, 2011

Looting of Libyan treasure highlights illicit antiquities trade - CNN.com

Looting of Libyan treasure highlights illicit antiquities trade - CNN.com
More on the theft of the treasure of Benghazi and the danger to other antiquities in unstable countries. It appears that things in Libya did not go as badly as they might have--no repeat of Baghdad, at least as far as anyone can tell at this point. There is also the scary point that the border between Egypt and Libya has become, as they say, "porous."

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