Showing posts with label illicit excavation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illicit excavation. Show all posts
January 29, 2026

Ancient Women, Modern Crime: How Etruscan Women Were Trafficked Across the World

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I have long been fascinated by the reddish-buff clay figures of barefoot women placed along the eaves of ancient Etruscan roofs. Dressed in ...
October 8, 2025

Caveat Emptor: What the Dancing Maenad Can Tell Us About the Market for Looted Art

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Christie's 2019 Auction In November 2019, ARCA published a blog post raising questions about a 5th-century BCE polychrome antefix depict...
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, ...
April 8, 2022

What about the well known looted vases in the Altes Museum in Berlin?

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Left: Medici Archive Polaroid with fragments of the Crater of Persephone, attributed to the Painter of the Underworld, Right: 4th century BC...
March 21, 2021

Recovered: Greek authorities recover a 5th century BCE headless marble statue of a seated male

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Following a multi-month investigation, authorities with the Hellenic Police have recovered an extraordinary 5th century BCE statue  believed...
December 11, 2020

Restitution: Cybele, the Anatolia goddess of Phrygia, finally goes home

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Image Credit: Turkish Consulate General in New York After a four and a half year stalemate in an international custody battle between a coll...
July 30, 2020

Restitution: Lot 448, Christie's

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Early last November we wrote a blog post asking Christie's about an interesting polychrome painted 5th century BCE antefix in the f...
March 3, 2020

Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and now TikTok being used to memorialize cultural heritage crimes

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Screenshot of TikTok Video showing unauthorized excavation In the past few years, and for better or worse, social media has completely ...