Egypt
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Related Publications
Spiegler, H., and Weitz, Y. (2010) ‘The Ancient World meets the Modern World: A Primer on the Restitution of Looted Antiquities’, Art and Advocacy Volume 06, 1-4.
Brodie, N. (2006), ‘The lost, found, lost again and found again Gospel of Judas’, Culture Without Context (19), 17-27.