Art Crimes - Ep 88
Cue the tense cinematic score. We’re talking about art crimes, both solved and unsolved! Heists, forgeries, and criminal masterminds abound, as we discuss the “value” of art, and why the black market for art and antiquities continues to thrive.
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8 of the Most Notorious Art Forgeries in History (Mental Floss)
Museum's Collection Of Purported Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Are Fakes, Experts Say (NPR)
All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds (Smithsonian)
Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes (The Independent)
The Global Fight Against Black Market Antiquities Intensifies (The Medialine)
Networks can stop the black-market antiquities trade (ShareAmerica.gov)
Illegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long (The Conversation)
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Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Ep 79
This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?
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Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)
This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)
The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)
The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains
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