This would supposedly prevent looted objects from benefiting from the high sale prices that come with authentication and conservation, and avoid perpetuating the looting cycle. One of the prevailing attitudes in archaeology and archaeological conservation is that looted and illicit antiquities should be ignored by heritage and conservation experts and left out of the scholarship. The spread of looting is connected to the high prices garnered by antiquities with an academic pedigree, or that have been conserved for the antiquities market. Looting is one of the most harmful practices associated with the antiquities market, which is teeming with artefacts of little to no provenance as a result. Figure 1: The Arrest of Christ (Kiss of Judas) by Giotto di Bondone, image sourced from:
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