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07-06-2017, 06:15 PM
Hobby Lobby buying smuggled Iraqi artifacts is too much for the internet to handle
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Hobby Lobby, the store that sells picture frames and wicker baskets to your grandmother, was just punished for buying ancient artifacts smuggled out of modern-day Iraq.
Like the villain in the world's worst Indiana Jones movie ("It belongs in a museum!"), the company snatched up thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, which were moved through Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and illegally shipped to the United States.*
SEE ALSO: 10 movie characters that made the most epic entrances (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/10-best-character-introductions-movie-list/)
The Department of Justice made (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-forfeit-thousands-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-imported) Hobby Lobby forfeit the artifacts, worth about $1.6 million, and pay an additional $3 million.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/06/hobby-lobby-smuggled-artifacts-iraq/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Hobby Lobby, the store that sells picture frames and wicker baskets to your grandmother, was just punished for buying ancient artifacts smuggled out of modern-day Iraq.
Like the villain in the world's worst Indiana Jones movie ("It belongs in a museum!"), the company snatched up thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, which were moved through Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and illegally shipped to the United States.*
SEE ALSO: 10 movie characters that made the most epic entrances (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/10-best-character-introductions-movie-list/)
The Department of Justice made (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-forfeit-thousands-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-imported) Hobby Lobby forfeit the artifacts, worth about $1.6 million, and pay an additional $3 million.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/06/hobby-lobby-smuggled-artifacts-iraq/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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