Although most theaters and auctions recognize the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property from the 1970’s, many of them bypassed these covenants and sold some of the antiquities that were illegally smuggled<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In detail, the famous journalist Lames Al-Hadidi published a special episode from inside the Great British Museum, which contains more than eight million artifacts from around the world, talking about the reason for the spread of Egypt’s antiquities with different covenants around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although most theaters and auctions recognize the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property from the 1970’s, many of them bypassed these covenants and sold some of the antiquities that were illegally smuggled from their countries of origin after the 1970’s, the biggest dispute or major dilemma is proving ownership of these heritage pieces and title deeds That the auction houses show to prove that they obtained them before the agreement to protect cultural property, and thus consider themselves to be the legitimate owners of these artifacts<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most museums around the world refuse to buy these smuggled pieces, but<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Many cases of smuggling were previously seized either within the countries of origin or at the borders proving the extent of this illegal trade, especially in civilized centers such as Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, certainly lack of political stability in those countries helps in the spread of this trade<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most museums around the world refuse to buy these smuggled pieces, but sometimes some of them appear within the museums’ collections or cultural institutions, let alone the private collections that some wealthy people seek to obtain and display within their luxury palaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here comes the role of researchers and academics to stop these illegal operations and expose them to people, the media and governments to continue to recover these pieces and prove the illegality of their acquisition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a stone statue representing the head of the young King Tutankhamun was sold in the famous auction house in London “christie’s” for more than six million dollars, the debate escalated again about the trade of legal or illegal artifacts in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":""},"categories":[114,118,116],"tags":[235,237,224,236],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thearchaeologist.news\/thearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/egyptian_brown_quartzite_head_of_the_god_amen_.jpg?fit=467%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1631,"url":"https:\/\/thearchaeologist.news\/thearch\/en\/mr-khaled-hiatlih\/","url_meta":{"origin":1124,"position":0},"title":"Khaled Hiatlih","date":"September 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr. Khaled Hiatlih a Palestinian- Syrian archaeologist, Before the conflict in Syria, he was associated with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in Damascus. 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