The world\'s Cultural Heritage is currently not only threatened by time, nature, and human development and also increasingly by armed conflicts.
Cultural Property Prot.
Revenues derived from the illegal selling are often used to finance conflicts as illustrated in the Da\'esh business model example in this publication.
We see destructions caused by looting and illicit traffic but also iconoclasm and manipulations of Cultural Heritage for political, religious, economic, and propaganda reasons.
The world\'s Cultural Heritage is currently not only threatened by time, nature, and human development and also increasingly by armed conflicts