“Please accept my appeal to renew the bilateral agreeement that restricts imports of antiquities to the US from Italy. As an archaeologist I have personally seen the results of looting and illicit sales of antiquities, both on sites I have excavated in Italy and in research conducted on Italian materials which I have tracked from Italy to US and northern European museums.”

Eric Hostetterr. Professor of Art History and Archaeology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign