Committee for Cultural Policy Special Report on ISIS Antiquities Funding Figures

A must read for all collectors interested in the past. Highly exaggerated claims that antiquities looting funds terrorism have been used to impact public policy. The Committee for Cultural Policy has issued a report demonstrating how news media and advocacy groups associated with the archaeological lobby have spread disinformation (including some from Russian and Syrian sources) about the value of artifacts looted by ISIS. Katherine Brennan and Kate Fitz Gibbon - "Bearing False Witness: The Media, ISIS and Antiquities A Special Report from the Committee for Cultural Policy" - 1 December 1, 2017.