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Infectuous News Coverage - Ancient Coin Collecting

Jul 9

Anyone who follows the media coverage of cultural property issues has hopefully been inoculated against IAB (infectuous archaeological bias). A prime example of how twisted the coverage can get is shared with us by Associated Press in a June 3o, 2008 article by Maamoun Youssef titled “Egypt retrieves ancient relief in London” (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080630/egypt_antiquities.html?.v=1). The sub title is “Egypt retrieves a 2,500-year-old stone relief from Bonhams auction house in London”, Here is Paragraph 1:

“CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Egypt retrieved a 2,500-year-old limestone relief from London after its sale was blocked by Bonhams auction house because it had been looted from a pharaoh’s tomb, Egypt’s antiquities authority said Monday. A team of Egyptian archaeologists traveled to Britain to retrieve the artifact, which bears hieroglyphic text engraved in six rows and a cartouche of an ancient Egyptian queen, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement.”

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