Artifacts

We know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered. On this episode we discuss.

As construction on St. Mark’s Hospital continues, workers stumbled upon a copper time capsule that has been buried inside the hospital for well over a century.

Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts store, bought more than 5,000 ancient artifacts for $1.6 million. The artifacts were imported against federal law. Hobby…