Antiquity Studies

Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | Stolen Heritage
Chapter | Attacks against Cultural Heritage and Organized Crime

Attacks against Cultural Heritage and Organized Crime

UNESCO’s Mobilization and Action

Abstract

Through attacks on cultural heritage and the deliberate looting of archaeological sites on 5 continents, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South-East Asia, terrorism thrives on fraudulent income and leaves behind the ruins of evidence from our shared history. This is the cultural haemorrhage that UNESCO and its partners face for decades and in a more prominent way nowadays.


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Submitted: Jan. 18, 2021 | Published March 31, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords UNESCOHeritageOrganised CrimePreservationResolution


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