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DePaul to Host Restitution & Repatriation Symposium in November 2013 with...
The conference, Restitution and Repatriation: The Return of Cultural Objects Symposium will be held at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago on Thursday, November 14, 2013. The program will...
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Archaeologists Keep a 1,200-Year Secret Just a Little Longer
Archaeologists were right to sit on their discovery of an ancient, intact Wari temple in Peru for fear that it would be looted. The Pacific Standard explained: Score one for the clever archaeologists...
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Emergency “Red List” of Endangered Syrian Artifacts Released, Includes...
ICOM (International Council of Museums) officials worked remotely to create a “Red List” of artifacts endangered by the current conflict in Syria. This Red List will be disseminated to law enforcement...
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Cultural Property Protection and the U.S. Military: A View From an Army...
Please see the following notice from DePaul regarding a program that will be happening… tomorrow!! If you are in the Chicago area, it sounds like it’d be worth checking out. Sorry for the late notice,...
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Costa Rican Archaeologist with Dodgy History Acquitted of Smuggling
Costa Rican citizen and Munich resident Leonard Patterson has been acquitted of charges of attempting to smuggle 1,400 pieces of pre-Columbian art from Spain to Germany. The Latin-American Herald...
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Nicholas Cage on the Hot Seat for Smuggled T-Rex Fossil?
In 2007, Nicholas Cage outbid fellow actor Leonardo Dicaprio for a 67-million-year-old skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a close relative of the T. rex, paying $US276,000 for what he called “a...
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Hit ‘Em Where it Hurts: Trend of Increased Penalties for Antiquities...
Petroglyphs in the National Park Gobustan in Azerbaijan, 10 c. BC. Azerbaijan has increased their protection of cultural property by way of increased penalties for illegal exporting of protected...
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80-Year-Old Munich Man with Confiscated Trove of Nazi-Looted Art Breaks Silence
1945 photo of Nazi trove of looted art An 80-year-old Munich man inherited upwards of a thousand pieces of artwork from his father, and 500 of the works are suspected to include pieces taken from Jews...
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An ad-hoc International Art Crime Tribunal to resolve the fate of the Munich...
My friend and associate Judge Arthur Tompkins of New Zealand sent me the following open letter which he has written in regard to the trove of art recovered from a Munich resident, reported on in...
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Pics of the Lovely Monte Albán (Oaxaca, Mexico)
On a recent trip to Mexico, I had the good fortune of visiting Monte Albán, a large pre-Columbian archaeological site near Oaxaca central. Monte Albán was founded in the 5th century BC, and was a...
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