Showing posts with label HSI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HSI. Show all posts
December 6, 2025

Historic Renewal of U.S.–Italy Cultural Property Protections at the Museum of Saved Art

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Yesterday, at the the Museum of Saved Art in Rome, Italy, the Government of the Italian Republic and the Government of the United States of ...
August 28, 2025

Six Months for 590 Artefacts: The Case of U.S.-Egyptian Smuggler Ashraf Omar Eldarir

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Ashraf Omar Eldarir has recieved a six month prison sentence in US Federal court.  ARCA has written a lot about Eldarir, a naturalised U.S. ...
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 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 ...
July 7, 2020

Ashraf Omar Eldarir, A US Citizen, indicted for smuggling Egyptian antiquities

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (HSI) - Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit within the U.S. Department o...
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June 29, 2020

Object Alert: An Illicit antiquity breezes through the windy city

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Hindman Auction Catalogue - 16 June 2020 Lot 157 Most of the time, when one thinks of illicit antiquities one imagines them transiti...
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May 19, 2020

Prosecutors file a civil forfeiture complaint for the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet which they say was looted from Iraq.

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The Gilgamesh dream tablet, Iraq, c. 1600 BCE while on display at Museum of the Bible “Strange things have been spoken, why does your h...
November 7, 2016

Repatriation: 14th century illuminated manuscript

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After reviewing photographic documentation provided by Italian authorities, the Cleveland Museum of Art has voluntarily transferred a 14...