Should looted antiquities be repatriated to Syria?
In 2015, Augusta McMahon, a senior lecturer in archaeology at Cambridge, and Alessio Palmisano, of University College London, went undercover for a BBC investigation. The archeologists visited antiquities shops in London to see if they could find artifacts recently looted in Syria or Iraq and smuggled into the UK. McMahon and Palmisano carried a hidden camera, but what they found was displayed openly on the sales floor of a posh Mayfair gallery: a six foot long piece of stone