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Museum displays and the creation of the ancient middle east: a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum
Storage of crops during the fourth and third millennia b.c. at the settlement mound of Tell Brak, northeast Syria
Different Trajectories in State Formation in Greater Mesopotamia: A View from Arslantepe (Turkey)
Congenial bedfellows? The academy and the antiquities trade
The illicit trade in antiquities and other cultural objects is socially harmful in several respects. Private collectors and museums are generally considered culpable in providing end demand by acquiring illicitly traded objects, but this article suggests that the facilitating actions of academic experts have previously been overlooked. Through a series of case studies, it examines different ways in which academic expertise is indispensable for the efficient functioning of the trade and suggests that a knowledge-based ethical environment for academic practice would allow scholars to make more informed choices about the propriety or otherwise of their involvement with the trade