France’s ministry of culture has published a lengthy report advising French museums on how to avoid acquiring trafficked artworks.

Next step - look at the ones they already own...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/in-a-new-art-trafficking-report-frances-culture-ministry-says-its-museums-must-tighten-up-their-acquisitions-policies-to-preserve-the-countrys-cultural-influence-2216087

Wikidata is great, but not the panacea for linking data. While aligning ancient sites at vici.org with wikidata, some semantic drift had to be accepted.

For example, is FAESULAE (https://vici.org/vici/11034) just the latin name for modern day Fiesole (Q82670), is it an ancient city (which I prefer, but this is not in wikidata) or is it an archaelogical site (Q3019577 - which I eventually selected)?

#wikidata #linkeddata #vici_org #ontology

Awe-inspiring #IceAge art. The famous Vogelherd Horse. This small figurine, sculpted from mammoth ivory, is one of the world’s oldest works of art. It was sculpted some 40,000 years. Ancient perfection! From the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany.

#Archaeology