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Honduras to Enact Minimum Sentences for Cultural Heritage Crimes
Those who are convicted of committing crimes against cultural heritage in Honduras will soon be facing a mandatory sentencing scheme. The Honduran Congress is expected to establish mandatory sentences,...
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Does China’s Planned Demolition at Xingjiao Bring Coin Repatriation Into...
Peter Tompa weighs in on the slated destruction of ancient Chinese buildings on his Cultural Property Observer. He points out that China was also involved in the foiled demolition of Mes Aynak in...
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Odyssey Marine to Display Gairsoppa Shipwreck Silver in Times Square
Odyssey Marine Exploration, treasure hunters extraordinaire, are sending some silver to New York City. The silver was recovered from the SS Gairsoppa, a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo steamship...
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Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed to Extract Crushed Rock
New York Daily News reports: A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project,...
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How to Move $8 Million Into the United States Under the Radar and Tax-Free? ART!
This story is a fantastic example of how art is used to launder money (like, for real, not just in hysterical art crime rhetoric): According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy...
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ARCA 2013 Annual Conference in Italy
The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art will sponsor and host the Fifth Annual Art & Heritage Conference in lovely Amelia, Italy, from June 21-23, 2013. Presenters range from the...
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Phallus Rises in Popularity, Goes on Sale in Norfolk Museum
The King Lynn’s Museum in Norfolk will be offering replica golden phallus pendants for sale in their gift shop. At a mere 2.5 centimeters long, what the pendants lack in size they make up for in...
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Intellectual Property in Art Law: A TeleConference With Dowd (Today!!)
Raymond Dowd will interview Alexandra Darraby today at noon EST in a live teleconference. From WestLegalEdCenter: Ray Dowd, author of West’s Copyright Litigation Handbook, and partner at Dunnington...
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Putin Wears “Happy Smile” to Return Ancient Books to Jewish Group
This is Putin’s self-described “happy smile.” There has been a long-running US-based legal conflict between Russian and the Jewish Chabad-Lubvitch movement, based in Brooklyn, over a collection of...
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US Ratifies Cultural Property and Terrorism Agreement with Azerbaijan
Ancient rock carvings date back to 10,000 BCE The package of documents includes the intergovernmental agreements on combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and terrorism...
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National Museum of Finland Refuses to Return Cuneiform Artifact to Iraq
The Art Newspaper reports – Officials at the National Museum of Finland say that they have turned down a request to return six artefacts to the Iraqi embassy in Helsinki that were donated to the...
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Russia Increases Fine for Destruction of Cultural Monuments from $1,200 to...
Russia has introduced legislation to take effect next month that will increase the maximum penalty for destruction of or damage to cultural monuments to $20 million. This is a vast increase from the...
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Roman Bust Stolen from Church in Spain Resurfaces
The Art Newspaper reports – A fourth century bust of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, stolen from a small church in the north west of Spain, has been recovered by the Guardia Civil, Spain’s national...
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Mystery Shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico
Marine archaeologists visiting a known shipwreck site in the Gulf of Mexico were surprised to discover two more ships nearby, at rest at a depth of 4,363 feet below the surface. Researchers from the...
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Shocking Pics of Looting in Syria
The UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra in Syria has come under fire from the Syrian army. Today in Really Sad Looting Stories, Bloomberg reports: When the uprising against Syria’s President Bashar...
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U.S. Government Declines to Disclose How It Obtained 10,000 Illegally...
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was a disaster for the country in terms of preserving their archaeological heritage. Looters stole 15,000 artifacts from the Baghdad museum in the chaos, of which only 25%...
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London Museum Deaccessions $20m in Chinese Ceramics, Citing “Good Time to...
In a controversial move, the council for the south London borough of Croydon will sell off part of its collection of Chinese ceramics, worth an estimated $20 million and donated in 1964. The proceeds...
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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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