Protecting Ancient Artifacts | Explorer

the nati has helped the museum agreed to
let me inspect the seized antiquities
where are you keeping the antiquities
down here was it just used to a curator
of the museum and this kind of jewy
ramon punk guy he looked a bit out of
place but they told me he was an expert
it mighta can test that so we’re about
to see the pieces that are being kept
here down in the basement of the museum
watch this of a turd wolf pyruvic acid
histah do you have a father and mother
and and the children how can you
authenticate that this is from the Roman
period but collapsible child with whom
were all staring Tanaka naka the patina
on it and I guess as well the writing
you can see is peaceful in monata that’s
how just amazed that’s in Greek
lettering it’s a Greek letter it’s based
on the Sumerian iconography but but done
later yes and so would this have come
from what is now modern day Iraq Oh
bingo bingo what is this piece
fragmental dinner in a circle fuck from
a sarcophagus yes there’s another grave
stuff yeah Samsa snap peas some have
suggested that these are forgeries that
you’re absolutely certain these are
genuine athletic sorting in early
this is the other part of the pieces the
region is the same the Middle East is
their big money for such antiquities for
sale a lot of money is what are we
talking about here maybe tens of
thousand eight hundreds of thousands yes
with these antiquities and others is it
possible that these have been looted
from Syria and Iraq then transferred
through Turkey and through bulgaria on
their way to Europe yes it is possible
maybe just one of the ways to bring them
to the market in Europe