Paul Barford
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Paul Barford
@PortantIssues
British Archaeologist, archaeoblogger concerned about portable antiquities issues and cleaning up no-questions-asked antiquities trade. Retweet not endorsement.















"We're here because of the comments you made online about Israel." A man in Texas shared a video saying local police came to his home to question him over posts critical of Israel.

In Poland, at Ukraine's request, an employee of the Russian Hermitage Museum, archaeologist Alexander Butyagin, was arrested, RMF FM reported. Butyagin was on a European tour giving a series of lectures. He is wanted by Ukraine on charges of conducting illegal archaeological work in Russian-occupied Crimea for more than 10 years. Ukrainian investigators say he and his team conducted excavations at the archaeological complex of the Ancient city of Myrmēkion near Kerch. Their actions led to the destruction of Crimean cultural heritage sites worth more than 200 million hryvnias ($4.75 million). Russia's Zakharova reacted to the archaeologist's arrest, saying, "We hope that Poland understands the absurdity of the accusations against a respected Russian archaeologist of 'destroying cultural heritage' on the Russian territory and realizes that such politicized actions have no future and will not go without consequences." rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/n…















