An Iraq court just sentenced a British tourist to 15 years in prison for taking pottery shards from an archaeology site:
The family of retired British geologist Jim Fitton has launched a petition asking for the Foreign Office to intervene in his case.
Fitton was on an organized archaeology tour earlier this spring when he took the shards from the Sumerian site of Eridu, an unexcavated landmark in southern Iraq where one of Mesopotamia’s earliest cities once stood. Pocketing the objects as souvenirs of his trip, he insisted he did not know he was breaking the law.
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