September 30, 2017
Where is the world's largest hoard of looted antiquities? Syria? Iraq? Nope, London.
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In deference to new readers of the ARCA blog, who may not be as familiar with the world’s largest accumulation of illicit antiquities, ARC...
September 27, 2017
Ar-Raqqah Museum - September 2017 Status Update
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Image Credit: DGAM, Syria - November 25, 2014 The last time ARCA wrote on the status of the Ar-Raqqah Museum was in November 25, 2014,...
September 25, 2017
Stealing from the past is destroying the future.
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Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) & Director-General of the UN Office in Vienna ...
The Illicit Passages of a Marble Head of a Bull (ca 500-460 BCE) and some familiar names
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Marble Head of a Bull (ca 500-460 BCE), (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York July 6, 2017 Manhattan prosecuto...
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September 21, 2017
Conference - ArtCrime 2017: The Symposium
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One Day Symposium Location: 101 Wakefield St, Wellington, 6011 New Zealand Date: Saturday, October 14, 2017 C...
September 18, 2017
What's the difference between ARCA's Blog and the Association's Journal of Art Crime?
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The Journal of Art Crime articles are PDF, while ARCAblog posts are HTML, often with hyperlinks. The Journal of Art Crime articles usua...
September 15, 2017
Recovery: Not all Ecclesiastical art that is stolen is lost forever
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In an exciting recovery operation, more than 100 stolen religious objects have been recovered in a law enforcement investigation code na...
September 12, 2017
Repatriation: United States will return Iraqi Jewish Archive to Iraq in 2018.
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Books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish Archive prior to conservation On May 6, 2003, in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s Mu...
September 5, 2017
Iraqi pawns and an American chess player
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Image Credit: U.S. Embassy Baghdad The United States has returned dictator Saddam Hussein’s chess set to the Iraqi government in Bagh...
September 4, 2017
Egyptian Mummy Cartonnage on Pawn Stars
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On this blog we spend a lot of time stressing provenance, provenance, provenance, and the need for antiquities collectors and dealers t...
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