Martin Bell

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474 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Aug

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How is a dinosaur fossil stolen property?

Mongolia has very, very strict cultural patrimony laws, those laws that protect items of cultural importance to a particular government.

When you think cultural importance, you usually think it's a statue or something that some ancient tribe made.

The temple of Dendur in the Met is an item of cultural importance.

But increasingly, various sovereigns had considered

natural things that once upon a time would have been looted um by foreign governments to be protected items of cultural patrimony too.

That way that

I think it's fair to say that this was one of the first really big cases.

In part because it's rare that you get a near complete Tyrannosaurus Batara skeleton.

I should say, um, I've mentioned the Tyrannos Batar thing before.

We're used to the Tyrannosaurus Rex in sort of the

imagination.

So a a Tyrannosaurus batar is a cousin of the Rex.

If you imagine

The Tyrannosaurus Rex from Jurassic Park.

The baby root of dinosaurs.

The baby root of dinosaurs, the batar would be smaller, but still like twenty feet or so in length.

And native to Mongolia.

And and one of the interesting things, I say native to Mongolia, how do we know that?

Yeah.

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