A brief item from Standart which is kind of interesting from a naming-of-potential-markets point of view:
In Bulgaria there are 49,800 private collections of historical value which are not registered, Nikolay Solarov – prosecutor from the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office announced at a seminar on prevention of traffic of cultural riches. Nikolay Solarov explained that only 200 collections are officially registered; less than 1% of the private collections in Bulgaria have ownership certificates.
Currently pieces of Bulgarian cultural heritage are smuggled mainly to Arabia Saudi and Japan. Smugglers carry Thracian treasures as some artifacts have been detected even in Australia.
Objects dated back from the Roman times unearthed in Bulgarian archeological sites are usually smuggled to Zurich, Munich or Vienna.
… which reminded me … we haven’t heard about the Maecenas Foundation and/or the Miho Museum in a while … the former seems to have appeared in Wikipedia in the last month or so, but still hasn’t updated its website in the past five years. The latter’s website is somewhat more current, but not really …
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