Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
March 27, 2025

From Pretrial Release to Disappearance: Where is Hamburg-based dealer Serop Simonian?

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Having surrendered in Germany in connection with a multi-country investigation into illicit antiquities trafficking,   Serop Simonian   was ...
February 11, 2025

Facing Justice: Ashraf Omar Eldarir Pleads Guilty in High-Profile Smuggling Case

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In a significant case of cultural property smuggling, previously reported on ARCA's blog , Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a naturalised U.S. citiz...
January 11, 2023

Not surprisingly, and despite all of his protestations earlier, Ali Aboutaam has been convicted.

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In a hearing that took less than an hour at the Geneva police court, Ali Aboutaam, the owner of the Geneva gallery Phoenix Ancient Art SA ha...
September 7, 2022

5+1+9+1= 16 plundered Egyptian artefacts restituted to their rightful owners in New York

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On the US side of the ocean, antiquities restitution ceremonies continue at a brisk pace.  This afternoon, another fifteen looted antiquitie...
September 4, 2022

A Worm(ser) in the IADAA apple barrel

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On March 30, 2016 in Paris, France UNESCO held a large multidisciplinary symposium examining the movement of cultural property in 2016.  The...
January 31, 2021

Sometimes restitution is a little like putting lipstick on a pig

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Left: Steve Green and the Controversial Coptic Galatians fragment first offered on eBay in 2012 by Yakup Ekşioğlu. Right: Douglas Latchford ...
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