November 27, 2019

"Hold on to your hat": Antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford, a/k/a “Pakpong Kriangsak”

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Looted Cambodian art for sale by Douglas Latchford Image Credit:  US DOJ In a case being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica...
November 18, 2019

At least 120 pieces of papyri appear to be missing from the Egypt Exploration Society collection

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 Papyrus from the EES Collection Graeco-Roman Memoir 103/Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXII In continuing their internal investigation surroundi...

Carabinieri, EUROPOL , EUROJUST investigation, code named: "Achea"

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Image Credit:  Carabinieri TP NOTE: This article has been updated after the conclusion of the press conference.  Today at 10:30, the ...
November 17, 2019

Recovered: Ring once owned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

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Note:  This article has been revised to include an interview with Arthur Brand at the closure of this article:  Engraved with Greek le...
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Culprits Identified in the theft at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Castiglion Fiorentino

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Proving that museum theft is a bad idea, the Carabinieri and the local municipal police force have identified two culprits, aged 20 and...
November 15, 2019

Revisiting the case of the marble head of Alexander the Great as Helios, the Sun God

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Sotheby's Website Screen Capture taken 24 July 2018 This week journalist John Russell, of Courthouse News Service , reported tha...
November 9, 2019

Museum Theft: Numismatic thieves also strike at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Castiglion Fiorentino

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In the second of two museum thefts reported in Italy this week , two thieves broke into the Museo Civico Archeologico in Castiglion Fioren...

Museum Theft: Museo di San Mamiliano in Sovana, Italy

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In one of two museum thefts this week in Italy, authorities have reported that fifty gold solidus, dating back to the 5th century CE ha...
November 8, 2019

Book Review – Females in the Frame, Women, Art and Crime

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Guest Blog post by: Dr. Catherine Gardner Penelope Jackson wrote this book as a result of a challenge unwittingly thrown down by Dr No...