Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Research is soliciting public funding for detector dogs to roam airports in search of looted antiquities.
Peter Tompa discusses the assumptions behind the project and it's practicality. In what way would so-called "illicit antiquities' smell differently from any others? The method of detection seems to assume some kind of intrinsic change which takes place in a piece of ancietn art when it is handled by an ill-doing dealer as opposed to the archeologists. Maybe the latter are envisaged as using a different kind of soap.
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