@article{1355884,
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      author = {Flyum, Ola, and Hebditch, David Leroy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355884},
      title = {Stealing history [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      abstract = {The looting of ancient artifacts from the troubled regions  of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is an ongoing scandal.  This film reveals the closely knit network of looters,  smugglers, dealers, collectors and academics which  encourages this illegal trade. The huge scale of the thefts  of precious artworks like "magic" bowls from Mesopotamia  and the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism, have led to  police investigations in Britain, Norway and Afghanistan.  Since the film was shown in Europe, one of the world s  largest collectors, was forced to return some of the  articles to their countries of origin. Archaeolgist Dr.  Erika Hunter had been studying artifacts from Iraq since  the late 1980s. In the early 1990s she was offered a huge  cache to study. She and Dr. Robert Knox, the Asia Curator  at the British Museum, are seen trying to establish the  provenance of the items, suspecting they had been stolen  from the area near Peshawar. In the Bamiyan Valley, where  the famous buddhas were destroyed, we see goatherds digging  for antiquities which they can sell for what seems like  fortunes to them. As much as academics argue about the  provenance of the artifacts, they still want to study and  write about them. It is impossible to stop the looting  now.},
      recid = {1355884},
      pages = {1 online resource (52 min.).},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      year = {2007},
}