February 28, 2019

In pursuit of restitution: FBI asks representatives of Native American tribes and foreign authorities and indigenous tribes for assistance in identifying material remains catalogued as part of from the Don Miller forfeiture

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Image Credit : FBI When US law enforcement agents raided the rural Rush county home of Don Miller in Indiana four years ago, the execut...
February 20, 2019

Interview with open source intelligence analyst Sam Hardy

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By Edgar Tijhuis This year, the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will be held from May 30 thro...

Egypt-Italy Antiquities Smuggling Case: Detention extended for Raouf Boutros Ghali

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As reported on February 14, 2019 Egypt's Prosecutor General, Nabil Sadek, previously ordered 15 days of precautionary custody pend...
February 18, 2019

Arrests made in charges of smuggling Egyptian antiquities in diplomatic bags to Italy

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On March 14, 2018 , Italy's Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, better known as the Carabinieri T.P.C., i...
February 17, 2019

The Metropolitan Museum, Christophe Kunicki and a Luxor dealer names Tawadros: More questions than answers on recent Egyptian acquisitions

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In researching details related to the acquisition and current restitution of the 1st century Egyptian B.C.E mummiform coffin, inscribed in ...
February 16, 2019

Restitution: Met Museum agrees to return its 1st century B.C.E mummiform coffin, inscribed in the name of Nedjemankh, to Egypt

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The Metropolitan Museum has agreed to return its 1st century B.C.E gold-sheathed mummiform coffin, inscribed in the name of the high-rank...
February 13, 2019

Looted artworks returned to Italy via voluntary forfeiture via Christie's auction house in London

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In a memorable act of rare collaboration, Italian officials have announced “the first case of such close co-operation between Italy and a...
February 9, 2019

Letter from the UN Chair of the Security Council Committee concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals and their involvement in heritage plunder

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In a letter dated 15 January 2019, signed by Dian Triansyah Djani, the UN Chair of the Security Council Committee, pursuant to resoluti...
February 8, 2019

Judge Tompkins returns to Amelia to this summer to teach "Art Crime in War” at ARCA's Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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By Edgar Tijhuis This year, the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will be held from May 30 throug...