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Againa a Red List: of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk

ICOM publishes a new Emergency Red List: the Emergency Red List of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk

Published on 4 February 2012

Againa a Red List: of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk

Published on 31 January 2012

Captain Gunter's "loot": Antiquities from China's Summer Palace continue to sell at auction

Stolen, Plundered, Contraband, Spoils of war, Ransacked, Pillaged, or????

Published on 8 December 2011

Facebook helps find local stolen artwork

New idea to get painting back

Published on 7 December 2011

Looted Korean Texts Return Home from Japan

After 100 years Royal Archive returns home

Published on 5 December 2011

Queens crown snatched from museum in Madagascar

Break in and gone is the 19th century Madagascan queens crown

Published on 3 December 2011

Conference at the American Academy in Rome

Should museums continue to collect antiquities?

Published on 16 October 2011

Pakistan's cultural heritage not for sale

Christie's has halted a planned auction this month of a fasting Buddha

Published on 15 October 2011

Costa Rica reclaims artifacts from the prestigious Brooklyn Museum in New York

Reclaimed artefacts ehibited

Two reliefs stolen from Egypt's Hetepka tomb found

Recovered from an international antiquities smuggling gang

Published on 13 October 2011

Paris museum returns mummified Maori heads

Quai Branly Museum not to return other artefacts

Stolen Artifact Returned To Belize

Polychrome Maya bowl returned from the USA

Published on 10 October 2011

Raiders of the Lost Art - Fighting Illicit Traffic

Insufficient prevention

Published on 4 October 2011

Turkish PM requests stolen tiles from France

Sarkozy:tiles gift of the sultans to the French government

Published on 23 September 2011

Looters plunder $8.5M from Ivory Coast museum

Robbers loot museum during political crisis earlier this year

Stolen XV century icon returned to Ukraine

Icon "Crucifixion with Bystanders" stolen in 1984

Eight silver idols stolen from Jain temple

Entrance through water cooler removal

3th century frescoes returning to Cypress

Frescoes purchased from art thieves in 1984

Published on 22 September 2011

Malacca to act on theft of ancient treasure

Relic hunters selling artefacts from Malacca River acted against

Manchar temple idol damaged in robbery bid

Some persons booked for attemtp to steal and destruction

Published on 21 September 2011

Removal of a Tjuringa stone from Canterbury Auction

Another auction sale of antiquities stopped

Published on 20 September 2011

Australia to return stolen artefacts to Egypt

Greco-Roman artefacts recovered from Melbourne storehouses to return home

Published on 19 September 2011

LAWYERS FOR A CAUSE: UNIDROIT

UNidroit-how does it work

Christie's Auction House selling stolen merchandise

Christie's suffers harsh criticism

Pakistan claim stops Christie's auction of Buddha

Christies sells Gandhara art that is probably looted

Published on 18 September 2011

932 books stolen from the National Library of Peru

Stealing books

Published on 14 September 2011

Several valuable artifacts stolen

Loot left in jungle - too heavy

Bulgarian Customs Capture Roman Statue at Turkish Border

Roman statue is dated to the 2nd century AD

Published on 13 September 2011

'Tomb Raiding' Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Graves robbed in the Pionierspark cemetery, Windhoek

Published on 24 August 2011

Russian Art Exchanges Frozen Over Chabad Lawsuit

Orthodox Group Suing To Get Schneerson Collection Back

Facebook campaign for return of de Valette's sword

Captured by Napoleon on his way to Egypt in 1798

Published on 13 August 2011

Hundreds of Illegally Traded Khmer Artifacts Auctioned in US?

Sales of hundreds of ancient Khmer artefacts without proper documentatio

Published on 12 August 2011

Religious Artifacts Draw Criminal Gangs Attention in Mexico

Thieves have often shown as workers specialized in restoring old artifacts

Published on 11 August 2011

Looting in Turkey creates logistical problems for museum

Last year, 68,000 objects were seized by the authorities

Published on 7 August 2011

Nearly 2,000 historical artifacts returned to Turkey

Ministry syas 3,610 historical artifacts returned between 2007 and 2010

Published on 3 August 2011

Global art theft: From Rembrandt to Riopelle

Stealing art: how it works

Published on 27 July 2011

Preserving cultural heritage

Debate on Korean history

Published on 20 July 2011

Stolen art held clue to Hadzic arrest

Investigators followed the trail of a painting attributed to Amedeo Modigliani

Published on 18 July 2011

Making 'Herakles' whole after all these years

?Weary Herakles?? has served as a symbol of the many works stolen from Turkey

Published on 17 July 2011

US signs deal with Greece on trafficking of artefacts

"There is still a lot of traffic, a lot of thefts in general going on"

Published on 7 July 2011

Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property

Multimedia on illicit traffic

Conference in Peru

Impressions from the 2nd conference Second Conference on International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage

Suzan Bayraktaroglu: in pursuit of historic carpets for 28 years

Like a detective, she has been on the trail of carpets stolen from storerooms

Nigeria set to recover stolen artifacts

Multilateral agreements with international concerns on the way

Illegal antiquities trade funds terrorism

The antiquities trade (is) thorny and ... difficult to police

Antique mafia stripping Raj cities of heritage

Ancient heritage sold off as handicrafts abroad

Published on 6 July 2011

Garcia surprises Sweden with plans for legal action to recover Paracas textiles

If Gothenburg is complicit in a robbery we have all the right to file criminal charges

Sacrilegious Theft in Motupe

Peruvians in shock

Published on 3 July 2011

Antique advertised for illegal sale online

The seller has stolen a piece of our national heritage

Published on 2 July 2011

Egypt Minister of Antiquities Hawas to assert rights of countries with ancient civilisations in Peru conference

Second International Conference to Recover Stolen Antiquities

Published on 30 June 2011

Heritage Board Publishes Database of Hijacked Valuables

Religious heritage stolen

Published on 28 June 2011

Chandigarh listing heritage to prevent smuggling

After lost and stolen Corbusier files