In addition to the following materials, you might also want to take a look at the course page for the online summer version of this same course (HIST 265X) in the links above. That page includes many different materials related to this topic, along with several recorded versions of some of the lectures we will be doing live in this class, which may be useful if you miss that session and need to make it up.

• Indiana Jones in History (Youtube documentary)

• Looted Art and Its Restitution

• Looting and Its Discontents

• British Museum website on the Benin Bronzes

• Display, Restitution, and World Art History: The Case of the “Benin Bronzes”

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Mission Statement”

• A Baltimore Museum Tried to Raise Money by Selling Three Pricey Artworks. It Backfired Stupendously.

• A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

• The Elgin Marbles: A Summary

• Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not Be Returned to Greece … Yet

• The Parthenon Marbles: Refuting the Arguments

• The Artifaction of the Memnon Head

• Subsistence Diggers

• A Digger’s Life

• A Poem of Praise for the Expedition, by Obulmahdi of Karakhoja

• The Discovery of Machu Picchu

• Thebes at War (excerpt)

• The Night of Counting the Years (1969, 102 minutes)

• Between Yesterday and Today

• French Foundations

• An Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculptures (intro)

• Chinese Frescos of Northern Sung (intro)

• Mr. Loo and the China Trade

• Wonderful Things

• Excerpts from the Diary of Howard Carter, 1923–24

• English Translation of Wan Rong’s Postface to the Chinese Translation of Stein’s Preliminary Report for His First Expedition in Xinjiang

• Statement Regarding Sir Aurel Stein’s Archaeological Expedition in Chinese Turkestan

• Whose Culture Is It?

• And What Do You Propose Should Be Done With Those Objects?

• Whose Loot Is It Anyway?

• Three Classified Reports on Central American Geography, Economy, and People

• Raiders of the Lost Ark: Story Conference Transcript, 1978

• Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers that His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied