Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
September 3, 2021

Norwegian police seize artefacts from the Martin Schøyen collection

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Weekly Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet has reported that members of the Norwegian Economic Crimes Unit, working in coordination with the Øk...
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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July 24, 2020

Restitution in the time of COVID-19: A fertility statuette representing a mother goddess returns to Iraq

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Modeled from clay and painted, this female figurine replete with voluptuous curves, and depicted naked and sitting with her arms folded ...
October 30, 2018

Recoverable or Not? The sale of the Assyrian gypsum relief of a winged Genius, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, circa 883-859 BCE

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In March 2015, the Iraqi government formally announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL had purposefully destroyed mu...
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May 25, 2018

Countering Antiquities Trafficking (CAT) in the Mashreq

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From April 16 – 20, 2018 I had the pleasure to be one of a specialised group of trainers for  Countering Antiquities Trafficking in the Ma...
January 13, 2018

INTERPOL's Most Wanted stolen works of art lists

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Image Credit INTERPOL - Works of Art Unit Every June and December, INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization publishes...
January 10, 2018

2018 Scholarship: ARCA has 4 conflict country scholarships for its 11 course program in Italy

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ARCA has four conflict country scholarships for 2018.  These scholarships cover tuition for the 2018 postgraduate art crime and cultural...
September 12, 2017

Repatriation: United States will return Iraqi Jewish Archive to Iraq in 2018.

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Books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish Archive prior to conservation On May 6, 2003, in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s Mu...