Peter Tompa has expertly observed: 'Prominent Member of Archaeological Lobby Suggests US State Department Faking Link Between ISIS and the Antiquities Trade' that archeological hard-liners are
loath to consider possibility that the real problem may be that that the "State Owns Everything Old" model only associates antiquities with hated Middle Eastern dictators and devalues them so thoroughly that they are smuggled or even destroyed.
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