Iraq
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Media Investigations
Some of the most informative studies of the traffic in cultural objects have been conducted by investigative media.
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Nimrud Earrings
In 2010 Christie’s New York returned a pair of Neo-Assyrian gold earrings to Iraq.
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Brodie, Neil (2023) Noxious scholarship? Publishing unprovenanced cuneiform tablets from Iraq. In Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel and Josephine M. Rasmussen (eds), Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Leiden: Sidestone, 95-112.
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Brodie, Neil (2021) Cuneiform exceptionalism? Justifying the study and publication of unprovenanced cuneiform tablets from Iraq. In Naomi Oosterman and Donna Yates (eds), Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World. Springer, 103-118.
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Brodie, N. (2020), ‘Restorative justice? Questions arising out of the Hobby Lobby return of cuneiform tablets to Iraq’, Revista Memória em Rede 12: 87-109.
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Brodie, N. (2019), ‘Through a Glass, Darkly: Long-Term Antiquities Auction Data in Context’, International Journal of Cultural Property 26(3): 265–283.
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Brodie, N. (2016), ‘Scholarly Engagement with Collections of Unprovenanced Ancient Texts’, in Almqvist, K. and L. Belfrage (eds), Cultural Heritage at Risk (Stockholm: Ax:son Johnson Foundation), 123–142.
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Brodie, N. (2015), ‘Syria and its Regional Neighbors: A Case of Cultural Property Protection Policy Failure?’, International Journal of Cultural Property 22 (2–3): 317–335.
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Brodie, N. (2014), ‘Aramaic incantation bowls in war and in peace’, Journal of Art Crime 11: 9-14.
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Davis, T. (2014), “From Babylon to Baghdad: Cultural Heritage and Constitutional Law in the Republic of Iraq”, International Journal of Cultural Property 21: 445–463.
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Brodie, N. (2009), ‘The market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008’, in S. Manacorda (ed.), Organised Crime in Art and Antiquities (Milan: International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations), 63-74.
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Brodie, N. (2008), ‘The market background to the April 2003 plunder of the Iraq National Museum’, in P. Stone and J. Farchakh Bajjaly (eds), The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq (Woodbridge: Boydell), 41-54.
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Brodie, N. (2006), ‘Iraq 1990–2004 and the London antiquities market’, in N. Brodie, M. Kersel, C. Luke and K.W. Tubb (eds), Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 206–26.
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