July 26, 2017

The world of art policing has lost one of its finest.

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"Everyone should realize that a cultural heritage identifies a people; it is the founding stone that shouldn't be scattered.&qu...
July 21, 2017

Restoring All Things: God's Audacious Hiring Plan at the Museum of the Bible

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Long before the news broke about a US Civil Complaint requiring forfeiture of thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae , or Egypt'...
July 18, 2017

Long-time antiquities dealer Hicham Aboutaam has sued the Wall Street Journal

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Long-time antiquities dealer Hicham Aboutaam has sued the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal’s corporate parent Dow Jones and Comp...
July 14, 2017

Recipe for a museum theft: 5 seized vehicles, 4 shotguns, a six-figure sum of money, and a pinch of organized crime.

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When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from the Bode Museum in the early morning hours of March 27, 2017 it was pretty ob...

EC Proposal on Plundering, Smuggling and the Importing Illicit Cultural Heritage in the European Union

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Image Credit: European Commission Audiovisual Services This week on July 13, 2017 the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, pr...
July 8, 2017

Thou Shall Not Covet thy Neighbor's Cuneiform

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Op/Ed By:  Lynda Albertson As the US press and social media came alive in condemnation as a result of the Hobby Lobby smuggling case , ...
July 6, 2017

Civil Complaint requires forfeiture of thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, but is that enough?

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Cuneiform Tablet - Image Credit U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York By: Lynda Albertson On July 5, 2017, ...

ARCA's 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Art Crime has been a great success

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By: Edgar Tijhuis ICOM Red Lists Highlighted at the 2017 Amelia Conference Last weekend ARCA held its yearly conference in the beauti...
May 19, 2017

Look into my eyes, but also into my collection history.

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Collecting ancient art can be an extension of a personal passion, a status symbol or a piece of cultural currency but it also serves as a d...
May 17, 2017

Blast from ARCA Program Pasts: ARCA'13 Alum Summer Clowers asks: Is the ARCA program for you? Really now.

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A medieval town & its secret passageways by Summer Clowers, ARCA 2013 WARNING: this essay is a work of satire.   It is best un...