Showing posts with label illicit antiquities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illicit antiquities. Show all posts
January 8, 2026

The Partridge Chase: How two Roman toddlers led Spain to a trafficking breakthrough

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Today, two extraordinary Roman bronze genre statues, each depicting a young toddler leaning forward with open arms pursuing a partridge were...
August 28, 2025

Six Months for 590 Artefacts: The Case of U.S.-Egyptian Smuggler Ashraf Omar Eldarir

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Ashraf Omar Eldarir has recieved a six month prison sentence in US Federal court.  ARCA has written a lot about Eldarir, a naturalised U.S. ...
March 27, 2025

From Pretrial Release to Disappearance: Where is Hamburg-based dealer Serop Simonian?

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Having surrendered in Germany in connection with a multi-country investigation into illicit antiquities trafficking,   Serop Simonian   was ...
February 11, 2025

Facing Justice: Ashraf Omar Eldarir Pleads Guilty in High-Profile Smuggling Case

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In a significant case of cultural property smuggling, previously reported on ARCA's blog , Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a naturalised U.S. citiz...
November 1, 2024

Edoardo Almagià Wanted: Manhattan DA Seeks Arrest of Dealer in Major Antiquities Smuggling Case

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Just over a year ago, ARCA published a post highlighting  suspect artefacts which passed through Michael L. Ward's variously named galle...
April 19, 2024

Spain's antiquities dealer arrest and the importance of facts-based reporting

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TEFAF Maastricht 2022 Image Credit: ARCA Earlier this week, ARCA published an article building on an announcement made by  Spain's Minis...
March 11, 2024

The wacky illicit world of one Ushabti of the Pharaoh Taharqa

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The Cultural Heritage Brigade of Spain's Policía Nacional have completed an investigation into a rare, illicitly trafficked, ushabti. Th...
December 17, 2023

Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia.  ...