> [...] authorities said it bought thousands of artifacts that had been smuggled out of Iraq. Some of the items on display at the Museum of the Bible had been looted from previously unknown archaeological sites.
Breathtakingly unethical.
Don't forget this is the group that voluntarily funded research that eventually proved some of their most prized possessions were, in fact, forgeries[0], so we have to assume they have at least a modicum of ethics.
[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal
I'd suggest being open about forgery shows they're interested in getting their money's worth from their feeders.
Given the nature of the business, that would have been breathtakingly naive of them. There's a certain point at which naivety isn't credible.