How Much Money Is ISIS Actually Making From Looted Art?

By RIAZ SALEEM | INNLIVE

A team at the University of Chicago has created a revenue estimate tool that will give us a better idea of what the underground trade is worth.

For excavators – archaeologists, but also looters like the Islamic State, or ISIS – the opportunity for discovery in modern Iraq and Syria is dazzling.

The countries lie within the Fertile Crescent, a broad swath of land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains and the Persian Gulf that gave rise to some of the earliest complex societies.