Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In h
Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchang
This book is the outcome of a series of lectures and workshops held at St. Cross College and All Souls College, Oxford in late 2004 on the ethics and politics o
A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, sev