Showing posts with label antiquities recovered. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antiquities recovered. Show all posts
April 20, 2021

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over 33 artefacts stolen from the the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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Image Credit - HSI ICE Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been plagued by war and corruption.  That vulnerability has lo...
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Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over three 13 - 16th century CE artefacts stolen from the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

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One week after its last restitution, on the first of April, the Consulate General of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in New York re...

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over two Kandyan Period artefacts depicting the Lord Buddha in Abhaya Mudra stolen from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

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As can be seen, by the restitutions accomplished via Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's team over the last month, New York continues...
February 16, 2020

Christies Auction Identification and Restitution: A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment of Sidmara Type

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Christie's, London, 4 December 2019 Catalog Cover and Lot 481 – Description Note:  This blog post has been revised with further in...
March 2, 2018

Repatriations - a 17th century Italianate landscape and a first century CE marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite

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Two months into the new year brings with it two significant repatriations for objects stolen in Italy and illegally transferred for sal...
October 6, 2017

Recovered: Antiquities, historic weaponry and a church relic that likely dates to Pope Innocent XI

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Image Credit:   Guardia di Finanza Today, Italy’s Guardia di Finanza unit in Foggia announced the recovery of a large stash of antiquit...
March 19, 2017

One well documented theft = three separate seizures - Egypt's successes in curbing the sale of a stolen ancient objects

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Image Credit: Antiquities Repatriation Sector of the Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt Four years after being stolen and then trafficked i...
December 25, 2016

How long does it take looted antiquities from the middle east to resurface? A heck of a long time.

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When people query ARCA about why the world is not seeing more looted Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni, and  Libyan antiquities on the market, given th...
December 20, 2016

Recovered: 9 Illicit antiquities from Puglia, Italy

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Nine archaeological objects from clandestine excavations conducted in northern Puglia have been recovered as the result of two separate inv...
December 6, 2016

Recovered: Two stolen Roman leaden coffins, one recovered from an auction house in Cirencester, UK

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Looted from a 2004 excavation at a building site off Napier Road in Colchester, UK, two Roman-era decorative leaden coffin lids have been r...
September 23, 2016

“Decorative Panels for the Garden” Since when has garden furniture been the code word for antiquities?

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Hapless buyer inspired by IKEA recreating a faux Middle Eastern outdoor living space? Or knowing accomplice to the illicit trafficking ...