Iraqi Artifacts Once Bought by Hobby Lobby Will Return Home

[ad_1] Hobby Lobby, which is owned by evangelical Christians known for their interest in the biblical Middle East, originally bought the collection from an unnamed dealer for $1.6 million in December 2010. The purchase, prosecutors later said, was completed despite being “fraught with red flags,” including warnings from an expert on cultural property law hired by the company that the artifacts were possibly taken from archaeological sites in Iraq. “Stealing a nation’s cultural property and antiquities is one of the oldest forms of org…