No Evidence for ISIS Looting at Palmyra

The truth is coming out now we have liberated Palmyra from Islamist scum, there is no trace of the looting we sat at Apamea and Dura Europos (neither of which was done by ISIS). British antiquities expert John Howland cogently comments on the Cultural Property Observer website:

The lack of looting evidence has put the skids under the anti-US, anti-collecting, propagandists' claim that collectors were/are buying ISIL-looted artefacts and thus supporting terrorism. Indeed, one airhead archaeo-blogger seems to be changing horses mid-stream, evidently realising that he and his pals are up for a torrent of ridicule: Then again, for that particular individual, swapping allegiances is nothing new. It certainly seems the US State Department ignored the advice of the tipsters and put its shirt on a nag. What price UNESCO now?

It now seems that our government has been lying to us all along and the extent of ISIS looting in Syria has been exaggerated. Peter Tompa suggests that "major sellers of classical antiquities are associated with the Assad regime, the Free Syrian army" or that guilty of the sales of any artefacts that are coming out of war-torn Syria are doing so in the baggage of hordes of destitute refugees as opposed to the rabid raghead iconoclasts of ISIS.