The phrase "artifact sales" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the selling of historical or cultural items, often in museums, galleries, or online marketplaces.
Example: "The museum is hosting a special event to promote artifact sales, showcasing unique pieces from ancient civilizations."
Alternatives: "relic sales" or "antique sales".
They say it also illustrates a striking disparity between what the government is empowered to do to help a foreign country recover an object from the United States and its inability to do much to retrieve an American artifact for sale overseas.
The militants spare some artifacts because sales serve as an important source of revenue, according to organizations tracking the illicit antiquities trade.
When we see an artifact for sale or on display, we must ask where it came from, and how.
The courtyard, with stalls once used to store horseless carriages, is now crammed with architectural artifacts (for sale) and hipsters, students, journalists and politicos (presumably not for sale).
The motel has some interesting sheet-metal sculpture on its roof and lots of dusty artifacts for sale.
There were tables covered with white cloths in the vast rotunda as well as signs -- in Arabic and English advertising artworks and artifacts for sale.
Pick a culture that thrived somewhere between Sri Lanka and Manchuria, and some dealer this week no doubt has artifacts for sale, starting at a few thousand dollars.
China has also agreed to ease the way for more archaeological loans and cooperation with American museums, to restrict its own museums from acquiring looted material and to explore ways of approving the legal export of more artifacts for sale.
But it does not have the same luxury of time as local grave hunters who use many of the same search methods and range from avid historians who collaborate with the authorities to clandestine collectors who pillage artifacts for sale and then move on.
But they do not have the same luxury of time as local grave hunters who use many of the same search methods and range from avid historians who collaborate with the authorities to clandestine collectors who pillage artifacts for sale and then move on.
