The changing legal landscape for Middle Eastern archaeology in the Colonial Era, 1800-1930

Kersel, M. (2010) ‘The changing legal landscape for Middle Eastern archaeology in the Colonial Era, 1800-1930’, in G. Emberling (ed.), Pioneers to the Past: American archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-1920 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute Museum Publications), 85-90.

Ownership of antiquities has for millennia been a potent symbol conveying power and wealth, education, national pride, and ultimately, control of the past.