Ashdod antiquities exhibit looted

THIEVES with a sense irony have looted an antiquities exhibit in Ashdod:

Burglars swipe artifacts from 'Antiquities Thieves' exhibit

By Yanir Yagna (Haaretz)
Tags: Israel news

In a display of what might be called ironic chutzpah, burglars broke into an Ashdod museum this week and stole silver coins from the Hellenistic period and other archaeological finds that were part of an exhibit called "Antiquities Thieves in Israel."

The exhibit, at the Korin Maman Museum, displayed artifacts that the Israel Antiquities Authority had previously recovered from antiquities thieves. Now it seems the authority will have to begin its hunt all over again.

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