August 13, 2025

How far we haven't come

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Francis Henry Taylor, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, had this to say about looted art entering the United St...
August 10, 2025

Italy has lost one of its fiercest cultural guardians, and ARCA has lost a brilliant friend, mentor, and ally.

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Maurizio Fiorilli, the tireless public prosecutor whose career redefined the global struggle against looted antiquities, has passed away tod...
August 8, 2025

From Disappearance to Return: The Long Journey Home of a Stolen 17th-Century Jesuit Manuscript

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In 1675, Jesuit scholar Zacharias Traber published Nervus Opticus Sive Tractatus Theoricus in Tres Libros in Vienna, a richly illustrated t...
July 25, 2025

From Dubai to Zurich: Eugene Alexander faces justice in antiquities trafficking case

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Evgeni Svetoslavov Mutafchiev flew to Switzerland from Dubai on Sunday, July 6th.  His visit to Zurich wasn’t to buy Swiss chocolates. Rathe...
July 21, 2025

Unearthing a Network: Seven arrested in Spain over the illegal sale of archaeological material.

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Authorities with Spain's Policía Nacional have dismantled a sophisticated antiquities trafficking network operating across Córdoba, Jaén...
July 14, 2025

Coffin of Contention: The Recovery and Return of Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered’s Stolen Coffin

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The anthropomorphic coffin of Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered, believed to have belonged to a member of Egypt’s elite during the Ptolemaic era (4th–3rd ...
July 3, 2025

These legal requirements are designed to prevent the illicit removal of historically or culturally significant objects, allowing authorities to assess each item’s provenance and value before it crosses borders.

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Following a two-year investigation, culminating in a coordinated effort between Spain’s Guardia Civil and Italy’s Carabinieri Command for th...
June 27, 2025

Regulating the Past: The EU’s Cultural Goods Import Controls Enter into Force June 2025

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Tomorrow, 28 June 2025, marks the official implementation date of  Regulation (EU) 2019/880 of the European Parliament and of the Council of...
June 12, 2025

Crime Pays in Versailles: Bill Pallot’s Fake-Chair Scandal and Its Broader Lessons

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From the opulence of Louis XIV to the refined lines of the Directoire style, ARCA rarely turns its lens on the scandals of the antique furni...
June 2, 2025

Where Art Meets Intelligence: New OSINT Puzzles Explore the Underworld of Art Crime

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The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Bellingcat as part of their res...