Rescuing The Past. The Cultural Heritage Crusade

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 374 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Jonathan Tokeley was contentiously convicted of smuggling Egyptian antiquities in a landmark trial - one of a series which had devastating consequences for the antiquities market. The Cultural Heritage Crusade claims that Source Countries have an indefeasible right to ancient artefacts found in their soil. And past acquisitions, like the Elgin Marbles, should be returned. Archaeologists widely accept this, and also the need for government prohibitions to prevent the looting of the sites. But this makes Antiquity a plaything of the modern humbug - of national vanity, of antiwestern dogma, of political correctness, and the academics disdain for the very idea of profit. None of which will prevent the looting. The Cultural Heritage Crusade, in short, is not an answer to the problem. It may actually be the problem. This book is both a philosophical analysis and a demonstration - in one country, Egypt - of its horrific consequences.

ISBN: 9781845400194