For example, the famous Euphronios krater, an ancient Greek vessel for mixing wine and water, stood in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for almost 40 years. "What is legal? What is illegal? It really rises to the surface to where I know some archaeologists who want pot hunters dead, and I know pot hunters who want archaeologists dead." His book follows several families of pot hunters who ran afoul of the government after digging up relics on public land.Īnd many objects now in museums may not be legal, Childs says. "There's such an attachment to what is the right and wrong thing to do with these objects," he says. Real archaeologists are nothing like Indiana Jones, but that doesn't mean the job isn't dangerous or dramatic.Īuthor Craig Childs' new book, Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession, reads almost like a thriller, chock-full of vendettas, suicides and large-scale criminal enterprises dedicated to the multimillion-dollar trade in antiquities.Ĭhilds tells NPR's Audie Cornish that emotions run high in the world of antiquities. Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
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