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“When you have a deceiver and a believer, it’s an intimate dance.”– Colette Loll, ArtFraudInsights, comment made to National Geographic about Hobby Lobby forgeries

The artifact scandal involving Evangelical christian co-owners of Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible began in 2009, when those co-owners decided they needed to pack their Museum of the Bible with as many artifacts from Egypt and Iraq as possible.  Perhaps unknowingly, they hooked up with artifact dealers who in turn, it turns out, was getting those artifacts from illegal sources, including some sources that used the money to create what is known in the West as Islamic State aka DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]):  “…antiquities are being actually excavated by groups like DAIISH or ISIS, and knowingly being exported and used as a means of funding for terrorism.”-Deborah Lehr, The Antiquities Coalition

On 24SEP2021, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was finally returned to Iraq.  This artifact has a history of being sold illegally, knowingly, by people in the United States and United Kingdom. The epic tale of an ancient tablet being passed among a den of thieves goes back to 2003, when a United Kingdom coin dealer sold it to a U.S. antique dealer.  In 2007, the U.S. antique dealer claimed the tablet was found in a box in 1981! After being re-sold several times, the tablet ended up with Auction House London, who then sold it to Hobby Lobby in 2014.  According to the U.S. Department of justice, none of the owners of the tablet checked on the legality of selling/owning such a tablet, especially since there were no legal documents! Federal law enforcers seized the tablet from the Museum of the Bible in September 2019.

August 2021: 17-thousand artifacts to be returned to Iraq from United States

January 2021: The Museum of the Bible Must Once Again Return Artifacts, This Time an Entire Warehouse of 5-thousand Egyptian Objects

In June 2021, Hobby Lobby sued a professor for his part in selling stolen Egyptian artifacts.  Hobby Lobby allegedly paid more than $7-million for the stolen papyrus fragments back in 2010!  The professor had been arrested in March 2020.

10SEP2020: The DOJ just seized an ancient artifact from Hobby Lobby. Here are 16 of the biggest controversies in the craft chain’s nearly 50-year history.

In March 2020, Steve Green, the Museum of the Bible’s board chairman and president of Hobby Lobby, tried to claim ignorance saying “I knew little about the world of collecting…”, yet it had already been established in witness statements that consultants, and even Hobby Lobby employees, warned Green years ago that the artifacts were probably illegal because there was no required legal documentation present!  Green promised to return 11-thousand-5-hundred artifacts to Iraq and Egypt!

God is Evil, 2018: I-C-E HITS HOBBY LOBBY, RETURNS SUMERIAN ARTIFACTS TO IRAQ!

01AUG2017: Israeli police arrest Palestinians for aiding Hobby Lobby in antiquities smuggling

In July 2017, the evolving artifact scandal involving the Evangelical co-owners of Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible even hit the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, Mormon) owned Brigham Young University, when academics called for an investigation into the connection between a BYU professor and Hobby Lobby.

31JUL2017: Israeli Authorities Arrest Antiquities Dealers In Connection With Hobby Lobby Scandal

God is Evil, 2017: CHRISTIAN HOBBY LOBBY SUPPORTS ISLAMIC STATE?

British Empire, let slip the dogs of war: Islamic State DAIISH