Showing posts with label antiquities looting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antiquities looting. Show all posts
December 9, 2025

The Difficult Calculus of Prosecuting Antiquities Crime : What the Aaron Mendelsohn Case reveals about knowingly possessing looted antiquities

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On 2 September 2025, the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan issued a sharply worded arrest warrant for California colle...
November 30, 2025

Archaeologist Arrested in Greece as Europol Expands Probe Into Bozhkov-Linked Antiquities Network

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The Bulgarian Anti-Money Laundering Directorate, the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office and Europol announced this month that a coordinated a...
November 3, 2025

From Cairo to Barcelona to The Hague: How One Dealer’s Footprint Lingers in Repatriation Cases

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TEFAF Maastricht 2022 Image Credit: ARCA On 15 April 2024 and 19 April 2024 , ARCA published two articles building on an announcement made ...
October 21, 2025

Train with ARCA in the World’s Longest-Running Programme in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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The Association for Research into Crimes against Art is thrilled to announce that applications are now open for its 2026 Postgraduate Certif...
September 2, 2025

577 Antiquities Seized: Minya looting case exposes ongoing threats to Egypt’s heritage

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Egyptian authorities report the seizure of 577 artefacts in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt, spanning the Middle Kingdom, Late Period, ...
July 14, 2025

Coffin of Contention: The Recovery and Return of Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered’s Stolen Coffin

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The anthropomorphic coffin of Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered, believed to have belonged to a member of Egypt’s elite during the Ptolemaic era (4th–3rd ...
April 22, 2025

Israeli Antiquities Authority seizes antiquities and airsoft weapons in Dimona residence raid

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In a coordinated operation on Monday, the Dimona Police and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovered a significant cache of antiquit...
October 28, 2024

Protecting the Past, Shaping the Future: ARCA’s Two 2025 Postgraduate Certificate Programmes in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage

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In 2025, ARCA is breaking new ground by offering not one, but two Postgraduate Certificate Programmes in art crime and cultural heritage.  W...
April 15, 2024

Arrest made in Spain on Egyptian antiquities smuggling case.

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TEFAF Maastricht 2020 Image Credit: ARCA According to Spain's Ministry of the Interior, following an investigation begun in 2023, the P...
November 16, 2023

The Ephebes of Pedro Abad are on exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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After a complex period of study and years of delicate restoration to repair their fragile bodies, the Ephebes of Pedro Abad went on display ...
October 25, 2023

All that glitters, isn't licit: Ukraine's unethical collectors incentivise black archaeology

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As various art historians confirm,  or negate,   the authenticity of the recently-seized Scythian gold recovered by Spanish and Ukrainian l...