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mouthyheritage: lootinginphotos: Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head in his hands as he sits on destroyed artifacts April 13, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0305/pcox.html Submit to Holes: Looting in Photos on the Flickr group pool, and see more photos on the official Flickr and Pinterest. Learn more about looting at Things You Can’t Take Back.  Holes: Looting in Photos is an effort to bring together many images of looted archaeological sites and looted artifacts to more effectively present what our destroyed human past actually looks like. By displaying both the individual artifacts/sites alongside the repetition of countless holes, dug up bodies, and defaced stone, I hope to provide a different kind of resource for learning about looting, as well as a more meaningful comprehension of the overwhelming global scale.  Follow for more! Breaks your heart. This seems like a really wonderful and wrenching project. On a related note, always, always, always be cautious when acquiring new artifacts. Make sure the provenance is solid. People who are willing to loot a museum will have no problem selling what they grab to other institutions. 

mouthyheritage:

lootinginphotos:

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head in his hands as he sits on destroyed artifacts April 13, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0305/pcox.html

Submit to Holes: Looting in Photos on the Flickr group pool, and see more photos on the official Flickr and Pinterest. Learn more about looting at Things You Can’t Take Back. 

Holes: Looting in Photos is an effort to bring together many images of looted archaeological sites and looted artifacts to more effectively present what our destroyed human past actually looks like. By displaying both the individual artifacts/sites alongside the repetition of countless holes, dug up bodies, and defaced stone, I hope to provide a different kind of resource for learning about looting, as well as a more meaningful comprehension of the overwhelming global scale. 

Follow for more!

Breaks your heart. This seems like a really wonderful and wrenching project.

On a related note, always, always, always be cautious when acquiring new artifacts. Make sure the provenance is solid. People who are willing to loot a museum will have no problem selling what they grab to other institutions. 

July 19, 2012
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    Not nearly as tragic as the human cost of the Iraq war, but tragic nonetheless.
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  10. living-history reblogged this from lostinhistory and added:
    Unspeakable! And again history repeats itself. It seems that there are things mankind just doesn´t learn. Looting is one...
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    Breaks your heart. This seems like a really wonderful and wrenching project. On a related note, always, always, always...
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    Holes: Looting in Photos is an effort to bring together many images of looted archaeological sites and looted artifacts...
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