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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Cultural Property Lawyers Must Remain Alert to Antiquities Trafficking and Money Laundering
- 7 Questions You Have About the Manhattan DA’s Agreement with "A New York Antiquities Collector"
- Cultural Property Stakeholders Clash Over AML/CFT Regs for Antiquities Dealers
- New Law Aims to Protect Lunar Artifacts
- Thai Cultural Property Case Edges Closer to Settlement
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- Destructive Exploitation and care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management (DECOPE)
- a very low estimate of metal-detecting in the United Kingdom, according to the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- loot and forgeries from Eastern Europe on the market in Western Europe, regardless of Russia’s war on Ukraine
- artefact-hunting in drug plantations and by cannabis-cultivators in Ukraine (around 2014)
- attitudes to personal and public health precautions among artefact-hunters amid the Covid-19 pandemic
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference - Save the Date & Call for Presenters
- 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer
- Penelope Jackson The Art of Copying Art
- Burglars strike the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden
- A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- Against "Displacement": A Thought about Hilgert's "Culture Matters"
- 100 antiquities police officers needed, 7 on the books
- A due diligence checklist -- the starting point for a calibrated taxing system for antiquities or for a registration system
- A possible second-best solution for orphaned antiquities?
- U.S. Senators are pushing for Native American Artifact legislation -- but will it do any good?
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
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The Getty List: 10 Objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum that Turkey Says Were Looted
Among the dozens of allegedly looted antiquities that the government of Turkey is asking American museums to return are ten objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty declined to provide a list of the objects in question, as … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Turkey Seeks The Return of 18 Objects From The Metropolitan Museum of Art
[See below for updates.] The Turkish government is seeking the return of 18 objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The requested objects include several highlights of the Met’s collection that are currently on display in the museum’s Ancient Near East Galleries. … Continue reading
UPDATED > USA vs One Ancient Mosaic: A Looted Syrian Masterpiece in Los Angeles
Rampant looting across Syria during its prolonged civil war has been well documented through satellite imagery and on the ground reports, but evidence that the looted antiquities are emerging in the Western art markets has, until recently, been scarce. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet Bostanci, Jaume Bagot, looting, Los Angeles, Mohaman Yassin Alcharihi, Mosaic, Soo Hoo Customs Brokers, Syria
UPDATED > Inside the ISIS Looting Operation: U.S. Lawsuit Reveals Terror Group’s Brutal Bureaucracy of Plunder
A civil lawsuit filed today by the U.S. government sheds startling new light on the brutality of the Syrian looting operations of the Islamic State. The lawsuit seeks the forfeiture of four looted objects – a gold ring, two gold … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Sayyaf, antiquities, Deir Ezzor, FBI, ISIS, Islamic State, Khums tax, looting, Syria, US Attorney's office
Danti’s Inference: The Known Unknowns Of ISIS and Antiquities Looting
Over the last month, a new meme has spread like a sandstorm across the internet: Looting of antiquities, we’re told, has become “the second largest source of revenue” for the hated terror group ISIS. The claim is almost certainly false, as … Continue reading
Hecht’s Footprints: Haverford College Opens Up About Source of Their Greek Vases
American antiquities dealer Robert Hecht died in February 2012 after six decades at the top of the trade in recently looted Classical antiquities. I’ve recently learned that some of that infamous career will be recounted when Hecht’s memoir is privately published in the … Continue reading
Twenty Percent: ISIS “Khums” Tax on Archaeological Loot Fuels the Conflicts in Syria and Iraq
Early Sunday morning, a Twitter account associated with ISIS posted a horrifying photo gallery documenting the group’s destruction of religious sites. The images show the demolition of several shrines in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which fell to ISIS forces on June 1oth. Similar … Continue reading
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