Some about the treasures you can buy in internet

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Hello.

The persons of this forum who know me know that I support a very hostile position on the sale of pieces in Internet. The case is that, for my professional activity as archeologist in Spain, I have had access to several reports, both of the National Police and of the GUARDIA CIVIL as well as of detentions and police interventions against the traffic of archaeological pieces. Of these reports they concludes:


-That groups are responsible of the total disappearance of a lot of sites and the serious deterioration of many others.

-The illegal groups make two kinds of illegal actions: sale of archaeological objects, someone of them before robbed, and the modification, falsification, aging of artistic new or authentic objects to make them to pass for pieces of major antiquity.

Including the creation of pieces, the manufacture of dies and obtaining of coins, the falsification and creation of expert's reports with false contents, in order to resale to others legal purchasers.

-The Police underline that the falsifications of cultural goods have reached such a degree of perfection that the valuation realized by the experts must be oftenly corroborated for laboratory reports.

IT'S A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM: PLEASE DON'T BUY ANY OBJECT. MANY OF THEM ARE FALSE OR ILLEGAL.

Recents Posts here at RAT can corroborate that.

Some interesting Links:


http://www.guardiacivil.org/patrimonio/ ... b_dcha.jsp

http://www.interpol.int/Public/WorkOfArt/woafaq.asp

http://historia-antigua.blogspot.com/20 ... ms-de.html

http://www.celtiberia.net/noticia.asp?id=869

http://terraeantiqvae.blogia.com/2005/0 ... logico.php

http://www.logopress.es/guardiacivilarq ... nov05.html

http://www.guardiacivil.org/patrimonio/ ... b_dcha.jsp