The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In h

This book reviews the competing claims that works of art belong either to a particular people and place, or to humankind.

Powerful, passionate, and to the point, this book is the product of a lifetime of working in and thinking about museums; no museumgoer should miss it. The book

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Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it