Idea
“We must punish the looters, but also the buyers”
The trafficking in antiquities from war zones in the Middle East has grown steadily over the past two decades While there is international consensus on condemning this illicit trade it remains difficult to combat it in practice One way to stop it is to increase sanctions on buyers says Amr AlAzm an archaeologist and professor of Middle East history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio United States