The British Museum offers to the digital audience a virtual platform against the looting and trafficking of antiquities circulating artefacts.
The Circulating Artefacts (CircArts) online platform, focusing on antiquities from Egypt and Sudan, is designed as a tool for all, who want to help counteract the looting and trafficking of cultural artefacts. It searches for provenance, reviewing all objects with no value threshold. It also offers workshops, training and an e-learning course to raise awareness among local and global communities.
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[Image: Stolen relief from a London collection, identified by the British Museum in 2014 as coming from a building of Thutmose IV in Karnak, and now back in Egypt. © Marcel Marée]