Colgate: Professor Elizabeth Marlowe Serves as Outside Expert on Bronze Statue Seizure
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
HAMILTON, New York, May 17 (TNSper) -- Colgate University issued the following news:
At some point in the 1960s, local farmers in southwest Turkiye uncovered a stunning group of ancient life-size bronze figures in rocky terrain outside their village, which had once been the site of the Roman city of Bubon. Instead of notifying authorities, as Turkish law requires, the villagers secretly dug out the whole area and sold the finds -- statues and fragments dating back to the second cent . . .
At some point in the 1960s, local farmers in southwest Turkiye uncovered a stunning group of ancient life-size bronze figures in rocky terrain outside their village, which had once been the site of the Roman city of Bubon. Instead of notifying authorities, as Turkish law requires, the villagers secretly dug out the whole area and sold the finds -- statues and fragments dating back to the second cent . . .