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Antiquities trade
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<p>The antiquities trade is the exchange of <a href="/facts/Antiquities/Kb2fN0qX">antiquities</a> and <a href="/facts/Artifact_(archaeology)/SftLTFf5">archaeological artifacts</a> from around the world. This trade may be illicit or completely legal. The legal antiquities trade abides by national regulations, allowing for extraction of artifacts for scientific study whilst maintaining archaeological and anthropological context. The illicit antiquities trade involves non-scientific extraction that ignores the <a href="/facts/Archaeology/K3Q5P38R">archaeological</a> and <a href="/facts/Anthropology/W6WK1C3a">anthropological</a> context from the artifacts. </p>