Posted on 11/25/2017 6:10:05 AM PST by mairdie
...Ms Howard, otherwise known as 'Indiana Joan', volunteered on archeological digs for around 11 years with British and American archaeologists in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel from around 1967...
Her collection includes neolithic axe heads more than 40,000 years old, pottery and weapons from the Phoenicians and the Romans, coins and seals and jewellery from the time of the pharaohs, and a precious funerary mask from Egypt.
She said a favourite was a Roman dagger she found buried with the skeletal remains of its owner.
Another was the wrappings of a mummy's remains and a cat claw wound within it, indicating the deceased was buried with their pet.
While notably proud of her selection, she has come under fire from prominent archaeologist Monica Hanna who believes it is illegal for Ms Howard to have possession of the items.
Ms Hanna, who works closely with the Egyptian government, has called for all of the treasures to be returned to their rightful homelands.
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Not for nothing....but I’m sure they all lift stuff...Likely a huge Black Market.
This woman belongs in the senate.
A crook among crooks.
Everything she did was legal when she did it. The treaty was not signed until 1989, in Australia.
Whatever.
That stuff was definitely safer with her than with the Egyptians.
I agree. Even after seeing what has happened to antiquities in the Arab world, they want to return things. The Elgin Marbles being one of their main gripes — should they have left them in Athens to deteriorate in a couple hundred years of city smog?
Remember the Ottoman Turks and the Earl of Elgin?
The law wasn’t in effect until after she pocketed the artifacts.
Doesn’t everyone have mummy wrappings laid out on their coffee table? It makes for a great conversation starter.
It was found by his brother who ran the family sugar cane business. It was uncovered while one of the cane fields was being plowed prior to planting. Unfortunately several other artifacts contained in the small mound were destroyed.......
who cares? those animals have looted museums and destroyed antiquities across the middle East. she’s a better custodian.
If Ms. Hanna had siddled up nicely to the 95 year-old and talked to her sweetly she probably would have gotten her to donate all or most of her stuff to a museum somewhere.
Ms Hanna would have insisted on an Egyptian museum rather than an American one, with the woman having no input.
Better Indiana Joan than ISIS. I'd tell that "prominent" archaeology lady to pound sand. Plenty of that in the Middle East.
Yep, the tragedy of living in a free country as totalitarianism creeps in. Australia: it used to be free.
Correct. It is only acceptable when governments or government sponsored groups behave as pirates and appropriate artifacts from the different archaeological sites. /s
I am reminded of ISIS jackhammering the statues in the Iraqi museums. How would these survive there.
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