When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century
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When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century

Many of the artefacts we see today in the ‘Ancient Near East’ collections of European and American museums were purchased in the late 19th and early 20th century from dealers who specialised in smuggling archaeological artefacts to Europe from Baghdad.