August 23, 2017
Hedge Hogs and the Art of Wealth: The Curious Background of Michael Steinhardt
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Michael Steinhardt has a long standing record of making astute financial decisions, many of which have led to stellar investment perform...
August 14, 2017
Artefacts seized at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad
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Destined for Japan, customs authorities at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad have intercepted six antiquities believed t...
August 3, 2017
Opensource Reprint: Nekyia “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Given the recent interest in the July 31, 2017 article in the New York Times regarding the Python bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyro...
August 1, 2017
Three years in the making: The case of “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” results in seizure.
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On June 1, 2014 this blog published a distilled version of an academic investigation which heavily documented details from an article in t...
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 , ...
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