(Relevant) Of the many strange things about living in the United States in 2021, few are stranger than Hobby Lobby’s role as a major player in the international market for objects from antiquity — a market rife with crime, fraud and corruption.
This has led to several very high profile run-ins between the law and the Green family, the billionaire evangelical Christian owners of Hobby Lobby and the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. And now, there’s a new, very high profile run-in involving no less an archeological prize than the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Brooklyn prosecutors have ordered Hobby Lobby to forfeit the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet.