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Antiquities

Introduction

It would be very difficult for the people to understand and know about their grandfathers, great grandfathers, their style of living, cultures and traditions on the grounds of which they practiced their lives. In order to move forward people need to preserve their past instead of stealing them from museums, archeological centers and other historical places. Artifacts or antiques is a collection of stones, instruments, equipment, books, jewellery and several other things that archeologists find from the remains of the people who lived many years ago. In the present world there are several places where historians, archeologists, researchers and other people work in order to learn about the civilizations that were present in the world many years ago. Artifacts or antiques are a source of learning for the today's world to find out the traditions, customs, religions, and way of life and know about the people but today people instead of using this vital source for education people are looting them and selling them at high prices to earn money. The report will provide a detail description about the past and present situation about the crime rate of artifacts and what laws have been designed by the officials to prevent the theft of antiques. It will also provide an analysis of the progress being made by implementing the laws in controlling the theft of artifacts.

Discussion

Many archeological sites in the world are facing the problem of security concerns for the researched materials, items and things. Antiques can be of any form, shape, size, color or design and can be found in any quantity. All the artifacts and antiques that are found by the archeologists, historians or researchers are kept either in the museums, archeological centers or any other historical place of a country in order to provide knowledge to the people about the earlier civilizations that were present in the world. Sometimes the archeologists need to preserve the whole site and it takes many years for them to discover several things from those sites. The governments of many countries provide support and encourage the researchers to find the antique sites which should be maintained and visited by the citizens to learn about their past. These sites also need to be protected from soil erosion, water logging or from further development. (www.chicora.org)

Unfortunately artifacts and art factual sites need to fight against the enemies who want the world to remain ignorant about the past. They are the people who are robbers, stealers and criminals who do not have any interest in the importance, information and knowledge an antique have in it. They are only interested in the monetary value of an artifact or an antique. People who are involved in buying and selling of artifacts are termed as the thieves of time who only want to keep an antique or artifact in order to sell it at the highest price so that a person can become rich. These people will always be ready selling all the ...