Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

Facebook Marketplace has become a profitable hub for the sale of looted and trafficked Syrian antiquities. Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation ...

Nearly a third of the 1,500 Syrian antiquities trafficking cases documented by the group since 2012 have taken place in the ...

Facebook Marketplace is typically used as a hub for thrifters to discover hidden gems that are now up for resale. But in ...

We examine the scale of the looting, how traffickers use the features of platforms like Facebook to facilitate their illegal businesses, and how the western art world could help tackle the issue.

War-torn countries are having their cultural heritage destroyed with antiquities being looted ... traffickers use the features of platforms like Facebook to facilitate their illegal businesses ...

Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP (Getty Images) Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market trade in looted antiquitieson the site ...

In a report last year titled “Facebook’s Black Market in Antiquities,” the pair said, “Facebook has become a sprawling digital black market, facilitating illicit trade in antiquities from ...

an independent initiative tasked with investigating the illegal sale of artifacts in the digital underworld, published a report on the use of “Facebook’s Black Market in Antiquities.” ...