Showing posts with label ICE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ICE. Show all posts
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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December 20, 2019

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seizes a female funerary statue previously on sale on the online website Live Auctioneers

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019 agents with the United States Department of Homeland Security - HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE...
October 3, 2019

The Libya MOU in action. The United States recovers and restitutes an ancient sculpture stolen from the city of Shahat (Cyrene).

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For years the Security Directorate of Shahhat in the eastern coastal region of Libya has tried to foil the attempts of individuals thr...
November 30, 2016

Auction Alert I: Ancient Palmyran Limestone Head Ca. 3rd-5th century A.D.?

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Two different online auction websites, Live Auctioneers and Invaluable   each have "sold" a listing for the same Palmyrene l...
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...
September 30, 2015

Highlights from “Conflict Antiquities: Forging a Public/Private Response to Save Iraq and Syria's Endangered Cultural Heritage”

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In an awareness raising initiative to highlight the ongoing upheaval and destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria, the Metropo...
July 17, 2012

Spotlight on Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations and Repatriations

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By Colette Loll Marvin On July 12th, I attended a cultural repatriation ceremony at the Embassy of Peru in Washington, DC. The cerem...