Mark Fisher

Finders keepers

Tiffany Jenkins’s arguments against the return of artefacts to their country of origin inevitably draw strength from the continuing crisis in the Middle East

issue 12 March 2016

  • Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums — and Why They Should Stay There

    Tiffany Jenkins

    OUP, pp. 369

Isis’s blowing up of the Roman theatre at Palmyra should concentrate our minds: our world heritage is vulnerable. Not that we should need any such reminder after the depredations of the Taleban in Afghanistan, or Isis’s earlier rampage through the museum in Mosul and its attacks on sites at Hatra and Nimrud.

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