UNESCO Warns Against the Looting and Trafficking of Artifacts from Sudan

UNESCO has called on the art market to refrain from buying artifacts from Sudan following reports of the looting of museums in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, amid the ongoing civil war.In a statement published today, UNESCO, the United Nations entity tasked with safeguarding world heritage, warned the public and art market against participating in the import or export of works linked to Sudan, as the “illegal sale or displacement of these cultural items would result in the disappearance o