Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
January 7, 2026

Boris Vervoordt’s TEFAF Appointment Sparks Debate on Leadership, Influence, and Problematic Art

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Axel Vervoordt Co is a family-led business. Boris (left) and Axel (right).Image Credit: TEFAF In a surprising turn for the international art...
November 27, 2023

Marking the return of 12 pieces to Libya recovered from Spanish gallerist Jaume Bagot of J. Bagot Arqueología

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Image Credit: Archaeology IN - Libya Following the order of the Central Court of Investigation number 6 of Madrid on 24 November 2023, it wa...
April 4, 2022

The sometimes slow and sometimes fast return of historical artefacts pillaged from Libya

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Cyrene, Northern Necropolis. The Sculptured Tomb/Cassels from Pacho 1827 Parallel with the start of the First Libyan Civil War, the Security...
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...
March 30, 2018

Illegal chains which mirror legal ones and function in the penumbra of the legal ones

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While much has been discussed with regards to terrorism financed via the sale of plundered antiquities, substantiating claims with cle...