Disentangling Strategic and Opportunistic Looting: The Relationship between Antiquities Looting and Armed Conflict in Egypt

 

Figure 1. Monthly distribution of antiquities looting and armed conflict incidents 2010–2014. 

 

Figure 2. Quarterly distribution of antiquities looting and armed conflict incidents 1997–2014. 

Both incidents of armed conflict and reports of antiquities looting in these data are distributed 

primarily along the Nile, where the majority of Egypt’s population resides. Figure 3 shows the 

geographic distribution of both armed conflict incidents and antiquities looting incidents from 1997–

2014. Reports of antiquities looting appear to be concentrated among a limited number of sites with 

multiple reports over time. 

Figure 2.

Quarterly distribution of antiquities looting and armed conflict incidents 1997–2014.

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Both incidents of armed conflict and reports of antiquities looting in these data are distributed

primarily along the Nile, where the majority of Egypt’s population resides. Figure

3

shows the

geographic distribution of both armed conflict incidents and antiquities looting incidents from

1997–2014. Reports of antiquities looting appear to be concentrated among a limited number of

sites with multiple reports over time.

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