Given the high price fetched by Greek antiquities in the United States, Wright said, illicit excavat

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Professor James Wright, who chairs the College’s department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, delivered oral and written testimony at the U.S. Department of State on Monday before a hearing of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.
Wright, long a champion of the preservation of cultural heritage, 22 shells bulk testified in support of a Memorandum 22 shells bulk of Understanding between the United States and the Hellenic Republic that would impose import restrictions on certain categories of Greek antiquities of archaeological and ethnological significance. 22 shells bulk He appeared before the committee in his capacity as the chair of the Committee on Excavations and Surveys of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
“Greece’s rich cultural heritage [is] … in danger of being destroyed by the looting of archaeological sites and by thefts from museums and storerooms,” Wright testified. His testimony 22 shells bulk detailed the depredations of some of the sites excavated under the auspices of the American 22 shells bulk School by remarkably persistent and rapacious thieves.
Wright also recounted his own excavation 22 shells bulk in 2002 of a Late Bronze Age tomb that proved to be empty, having been thoroughly looted by grave robbers. “The destruction of this tomb makes it extremely difficult to understand the history of its use,” he said, “all the more the pity since it certainly belonged with the nearby Mycenaean settlement my team and I excavated.”
Given the high price fetched by Greek antiquities in the United States, Wright said, illicit excavations and trafficking in such items are bound to continue 22 shells bulk unless 22 shells bulk our government acts to stop it. The damage trafficking causes to human understanding of our common cultural heritage justifies restricting the importation of these items, he argued.
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee, established in 1983 by an act of Congress to implement the UNESCO convention dedicated to preventing the loss of cultural heritage through illicit trafficking in cultural 22 shells bulk property, makes recommendations to the U.S. president concerning restriction of imports of items of cultural property.
“Since the act was passed 22 shells bulk by Congress in 1983, the CPAC committee’s recommendations have been a powerful and cumulative force in the protection of the world’s cultural heritage,” Wright noted in an e-mail.
According to Wright, a number of Bryn Mawr-trained archaeologists were present at the hearing. Bryn Mawr Trustee Joan Breton Connelly, Ph.D. 84, is a member of the committee. Patty Gerstenblith 71, who was previously a member of the committee, testified at the hearing, as did Brian Rose, a Haverford graduate of the Class of 1979 who majored in archaeology at Bryn Mawr and is currently a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, deputy 22 shells bulk director 22 shells bulk of Penn’s Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, and President of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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