The Scourge of Looting: Trafficking Antiquities, from Temple to Museum

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The Scourge of Looting: Trafficking Antiquities, from Temple to Museum발음듣기

My friends often accuse me of ruining visits to museums for them.발음듣기

They say that I ruined their visits to museums because if you look closely at the antiquities in museums, you often see things like chisel marks and hacksaw marks.발음듣기

Violent evidence of how those pieces got into a museum to begin with.발음듣기

I came to Boston University specifically to study archaeology, and started learning about the looting of archaeological sites and trafficking of antiquities and what a huge global problem it is.발음듣기

I went to Cambodia as an undergraduate and saw are just how devastating this problem was on the ground.발음듣기

Cambodia's temples, some of them are over a thousand years old.발음듣기

At some of the sites their word dozens freestanding statues.발음듣기

For example, the temple of Koh Ker in the Sotheby's case was described by an early explorer as a historical museum due to the abundant statuary there.발음듣기

When you go to Koh Ker today, there are no freestanding statues.발음듣기

There are just empty pedestals, there are holes in the wall, there are fragments of pieces.발음듣기

These sites have been absolutely devastated, and that devastation was not something that took centuries.발음듣기

The evidence we have shows that the looting happened almost exclusively during the Cambodian Civil War against the Khmer Rouge. 발음듣기

When conflict erupts in an archaeological rich country, suddenly the art market is flooded with antiquities from those countries.발음듣기

And it's not just a historical problem either.발음듣기

The illicit antiquities trade is threatening sites around the world, but still going on now in Syria, and Egypt, and Libya, and Mali, and Tunisia, which is why I think the public should know that this is not just a white collar crime, that insurgent groups that terrorist groups are using the antiquities trade to fund their efforts. 발음듣기

I do fear that by the time we, we get our act together on this it's going to be too late.발음듣기

Unless we stop the looting of archaeological sites, there really will be nothing left.발음듣기

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