SAMUEL HARDY

Dr. Sam Hardy is Adjunct Professor at the American University of Rome and Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His doctoral research focused on the law, ethics and politics of cultural heritage work; destruction of cultural property and propaganda; and trafficking of antiquities in the Cyprus Conflict.

Since then, he has focused on trafficking of cultural goods in the conflict in Syria and Iraq and the history of such trafficking by armed groups and repressive regimes around the world. He blogs about open-source research and analysis of the conflict antiquities trade and other aspects of the illicit antiquities trade: . 

Read his published papers:
Quantitative Analysis of Open-Source Data on Metal Detecting for Cultural Property: Estimation of the Scale and Intensity of Metal Detecting and the Quantity of Metal-Detected Cultural Goods

‘Black Archaeology’ in Eastern Europe: Metal Detecting, Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Objects, and ‘Legal Nihilism’ in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine

Online Social Organisation Of Looting And Trafficking Of Antiquities From Turkey, Greece And Cyprus