Indiana Jones wasn’t the only tomb-raiding thief

Indiana Jones wasn’t the only tomb-raiding thief
Looters had unearthed the golden coffin of Nedjemankh during the chaos of the Arab Spring. It was later sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Image: Getty)
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By Howard Chua-Eoan, Bloomberg OpinionThere was a revealing congruity between two dissimilar objects at the just-concluded Frieze art show in London’s Regent’s Park. Both were exhibits by David Aaron, a gallery based in Berkeley Square. The first was a towering 68 million-year-old skeleton of a juvenile tyrannosaurus rex, all a-snarl with its fossilised tail in mid-swing through the air; the other, tiny by comparison, a 3,600-year-old ushabti or tomb figurine from pharaonic Egypt, just 25.3 centimetres high. The informatio...

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