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- UPDATED > Manhattan Dealer Nancy Wiener Arrested: Criminal Complaint Alleges Sweeping Conspiracy to Sell Stolen Asian Art Through Major Auction Houses December 21, 2016
- UPDATED > Inside the ISIS Looting Operation: U.S. Lawsuit Reveals Terror Group’s Brutal Bureaucracy of Plunder December 15, 2016
- The End of the Beginning: NGA Returns Kushan Buddha and Two Kapoor Objects September 18, 2016
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- UPDATED > Asia Week Arrest: Japanese Dealer Convicted Of Selling Stolen Art March 19, 2016
- Asia Week Raids: New Details on the Christie’s Seizures March 18, 2016
- Busted: Asia Week Raids Reveal Scope of Illicit Trade in Asian Art March 17, 2016
- The Crennan Report: The NGA’s Ex Post Facto Due Diligence Finds 22 “Questionable” Asian Antiquities February 17, 2016
- Operation Antiquity: Prison for Antiquities Dealer Behind Looting and Tax Fraud Scheme December 15, 2015
- Ball State’s Kapoor Return Reveals New False Provenance November 17, 2015
- The Seated Buddha Goes Home: Nancy Wiener and National Gallery of Australia Will Return Sculpture to India March 5, 2015
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- Hecht’s Footprints: Haverford College Opens Up About Source of Their Greek Vases November 4, 2014
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David Gill’s Looting Matters- Two lots withdrawn from Bonham's sale
- An Analysis of the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art
- Hecht fragment returns to Italy
- Further returns to Greece from the Met
- Lions from the archaic Panionion
- Byzantine Capital Returned to Türkiye
- Returns to Greece from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
- More returns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Lydian Hoard: More Returns to Türkiye
- The Stern Collection of Cycladicising Figures
Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues- Operation METHODICAL: Protecting London’s Art During a Nuclear Attack
- New Iraqi Museum Planned
- Despite the Antiquities Trade being State-Controlled
- Hungarian Collector Returns 183 Khmer Textiles and Artefacts to Cambodia
- 35 arrests in Bulgaria in a large art trafficking investigation
- A Single Coin "Rewrites" German History?
- Secrecy Surrounds former Whereabouts of Ancient Akkadian Seal Stolen from the Duhok Museum in 1991.
- Le Parisien: Ban on a "treasure hunt" in Loiret to protect archaeological heritage upheld by the courts
- OSCE assists UK authorities in "major antiquities recovery operation"
- Treasure finds in England have Again Hit a Record High (General Rejoicing at Increased Scale of Destruction)
Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property- Alleged Bubon Smuggling Network Widens
- Marlowe on the Real Issue with the Glyptotek Head
- 27 Objects Seized From the Met
- Smash and Smash at the Dallas Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Marlowe’s Review of ‘The Brutish Museum’
- The Terrific Pandora Papers Looted Art Article
- Italian Senate renews call for return of the ‘Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth’
- Psychics, Bowie knives, fake Alamo artifacts: New Book out today on how Texas can’t shake the Alamo
- Online Symposium on the Benin Bronzes Friday Apr. 9
- University of Aberdeen will repatriate a Benin bronze to Nigeria
Conflict Antiquities- black digging of modern militaria in northern Europe
- Mobilising Care for Cultural Heritage in Russia’s War against Ukraine: looting and trafficking
- Mobilising Care for Cultural Heritage in Russia’s War against Ukraine: key findings and recommendations
- asides on black digging (illegal excavation) of modern militaria in eastern Europe
- asides on artefact hunting by cannabis cultivators in eastern Europe
- documenting the appropriation of cultural assets from Kherson Art Museum – a report by the Curia Lab for the Conflict Observatory
- ‘a system under [increasing] pressure’: the number of artefact-hunting detectorists in Scotland
- illicit trafficking of cultural objects by forced migrants – profitable to violent political organisations and corrupt officials, intensified by failed refugee policy
- Russia was ‘doomed to expand [its] aggression’ against Ukraine: Cultural property criminals’ responses to the invasion and occupation of the Donbas since 20th February 2014
- propagandist fighter Maxim Fomin and the supply of metal detectors by artefact hunters for mine clearing by Russia’s forces in Ukraine
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art- The Difficult Calculus of Prosecuting Antiquities Crime : What the Aaron Mendelsohn Case reveals about knowingly possessing looted antiquities
- Interview with Stefano Alessandrini, Forensic Antiquities Analyst and ARCA Professor
- Historic Renewal of U.S.–Italy Cultural Property Protections at the Museum of Saved Art
- Archaeologist Arrested in Greece as Europol Expands Probe Into Bozhkov-Linked Antiquities Network
- Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Santana Nash, Artistic Residency and Student Programming Coordinator
- Red Flags Ignored? Seventeen Egyptian artefacts have been formally returned to Egypt from Australia
- Last Alleged Member of Louvre Strike Team Caught as Paris Police Make Four New Arrests
- Italian Authorities Arrest 55 Suspects in Major Archaeological Looting Probe in Sicily
- Gold Coin Heist in Lausanne Highlights Growing Trend of Melt-Value Museum Theft
- Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Detective Constable Lionel Doe
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