eBay Lessens Antiquities Looting (Scientific American)

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] When eBay first came onto the scene more than a decade ago, archaeologists were petrified: easily buying and selling antiquities online might increase the looting and trafficking of archaeological treasures. Now they’re letting out a sigh of relief. Charles Stanish of U.C.L.A. writes in Archaeology magazine that eBay has paradoxically …

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