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a_kleberWatch out for looted Libyan artefacts, UN warns auction houses
As violence spreads through Tripoli, fears grow that antiquities of 'great importance to humanity' will be destroyed
«The UN's cultural agency yesterday warned the international art market to be on the alert for Libyan antiquities looted during unrest with the fall of the Gaddafi regime.
Libya has five World Heritage Sites including ruins of Roman cities and cave paintings going back 14,000 years. There was no immediate suggestion that sites had been raided, though there have been sporadic reports of looting in the capital, Tripoli. Fighters, who took over the dictator's compound at Bab al-Aziziya, escaped with souvenirs and valuables hoarded by the family and its cronies.
The director general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, said that Libya was of great importance "to humanity as a whole" and contacted authorities in Tripoli and neighbouring countries to try to guard against looting of its sites. (...)»
As violence spreads through Tripoli, fears grow that antiquities of 'great importance to humanity' will be destroyed
«The UN's cultural agency yesterday warned the international art market to be on the alert for Libyan antiquities looted during unrest with the fall of the Gaddafi regime.
Libya has five World Heritage Sites including ruins of Roman cities and cave paintings going back 14,000 years. There was no immediate suggestion that sites had been raided, though there have been sporadic reports of looting in the capital, Tripoli. Fighters, who took over the dictator's compound at Bab al-Aziziya, escaped with souvenirs and valuables hoarded by the family and its cronies.
The director general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, said that Libya was of great importance "to humanity as a whole" and contacted authorities in Tripoli and neighbouring countries to try to guard against looting of its sites. (...)»
