Photo of the (already destroyed) Monumental Arch of Palmyra, Syria. The Islamic State financed itself by looting this and other archaeological sites such as Mosul, Nineveh or Apamea, and selling the stolen pieces on the black market online.[1]
Blood antiquities are archaeological artefacts that have been plundered during conflicts and have been used to fund these wars. The looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trafficking of cultural property is, and has been, a common practice for terrorist groups in war zones. The pieces mostly end up on the black market, art galleries and antique shops in Europe and North America,[2] or in millionaire private collections. The looting of blood antiquities especially affects the Middle East, because it is a very conflictive area and at the same time with a great density of archaeological sites.[3]
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