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A study of the closed society of international plunderers and forgers which thrives as a subculture of the art world. These multi-cultural denizens include antiquity dealers, collectors, museum curators, and forgers working in conjunction with auction houses, museums and galleries. Forgeries are made to be sold, and a great number pass into the art world, complete with their fabricated stories of excavation, and how they were found. This volume documents the success and activities of one small corner of this vast network - artefacts from the Ancient Near East - with hundreds of detailed catalogue entries of forgeries.

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' Muscarella presents his views with implacable passion...' <br>Ellen Herscher, Archaeology Magazine.<br>

' Muscarella presents his views with implacable passion...' Ellen Herscher, Archaeology Magazine.

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O.W. Muscarella, Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, has excavated at numerous sites in both Turkey and Iran. He has been affiliated with the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1964. He has lectured and written numerous articles and books on the Ancient Near East.

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