Showing posts with label Antiquities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antiquities. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Looted Antiquities, Billionaire Collectors, and the Politics of Return: "...This is ongoing. Since the genocide in Gaza began, over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning the prehistoric to the Ottoman periods, housed in Gaza City's Pasha's Palace museum, have gone missing or been looted. Israeli forces have fully or partially destroyed more than 316 archaeological sites and buildings in Gaza. Meanwhile, a 2025 study by Palestinian researchers found that, as the war in Gaza continued, archaeological theft in the West Bank skyrocketed...."

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Syro-Hittite Female Idol. Source: New York District Attorney’s Office, press release. The Institute for Palestine Studies: The IPS blog, Pal...
Monday, October 5, 2026

Mosaic view of Gaza in the Church of St Stephen, Um ar-Rasas, Jordan. It was constructed in 756CE by the mosaics artists Stauranchius & Euremius,

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Mosaic view of Gaza in the Church of St Stephen, Um ar-Rasas, Jordan. It was constructed in 756CE by the mosaics artists Stauranchius & ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

"Archaeology has become yet another mechanism of oppression, alongside settler and military violence, movement restrictions, and daily dispossession. And while Palestinian communities resist with the few means available to them, Israeli archaeologists continue to legitimize and advance these forces. If Israeli archaeologists wish to maintain their academic legitimacy — and, more importantly, cease participating in an unethical project of colonial domination — they must heed the warnings of their international peers and reject the state’s cynical exploitation of their profession."

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 Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank Subordinating scientific value to colonial expa...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

"It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices" William Dalrymple... Aphrodite,oil lamps,trade routes,churches, etc.

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When Gaza was the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices... Oil lamp ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Israel unveils Herod's archaeological treasures: Herod's mausoleum headlines Israel's most ambitious archaeological show but Palestinians say treasures should stay where they were found

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A stone sculpture of the Roman emperor Augustus, who ruled at the time of Herod the Great – part of the Israel Museum exhibition. Photog...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Dr. Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister: Inscribing Bethlehem on the World Heritage List... This Week in Palestine

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Nativity Church, Bethlehem. Photo from Palestine Image Bank. [AS ALWAYS ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Jordan to complain to UNESCO over Israeli appropriation of the Dead Sea scrolls discovered between 1948 and 1957 by Jordanian archaeologists

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The scrolls were discovered between 1948 and 1957 by Jordanian archaeologists following the first find by Palestinian Bedouins in 1947. ...