Posted on 07/31/2017 8:23:47 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
At 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, Israeli police say, authorities arrested five Palestinian antiquities dealers in Jerusalem and confiscated items dating back thousands of years from their homes and shops: papyrus fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the bust of an Etruscan woman, a fresco from Pompeii depicting swimming fish. They also seized more modern objects — two black luxury Audi vehicles — and more than $200,000 in cash.
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NPR reported about a gang of Palestinian crooks? Will wonders ever cease?
Third world hucksters gotta do what third world hucksters do, but Hobby Lobby? Treating ancient artifacts, even common ones, as disposable crap decor? Why didn’t they pay for reproductions? Employ some poor Gaza Strip Palestinians?
Fake news yet again. Smuggled to the president of Hobby Lobby, not to the HL corporation. What would Hobby Lobby need antiquities for, after all?
Correcting myself. Artifacts purchased for corporate collection, not store sales.
Yeah, just like in Iraq when they blamed Bush for the artefact looting... They alwasys find someone on the right to “do” some wrong...
Hobby Lobby is funding a huge Museum of the Bible in DC. They issued a statement a few weeks ago saying they accept responsibility, paid the fine, and admitted they should have been more careful in who they dealt with in purchasing items for the museum.
https://www.museumofthebible.org/
What would Hobby Lobby need antiquities for, after all?
What Hobby Lobby’s president plans to do with 40,000 biblical artifacts
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/us/hobby-lobby-bible-museum/
I’ve seen the HL president’s collection. Absolutely incredible in scale & value.
Since God is in the details, this episode has sure given the Museum of the Bible a lot of publicity they would have otherwise missed.
NPR attack on Hobby Lobby.
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This isn't a Hobby Lobby scandal. To my knowledge their founder was charged with no crime, and paid a substantial price in fines and forfeitures for his poor choice in dealers.
Has anyone considered that he may be trying to save as many artifacts as he can from destruction by radical Islam?
They are guilty of buying from invalid vendors. In this market, it’s really common.
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