The National Museum of Asian Art will temporarily store the 77 cultural relics as looting and destruction of antiquities continues in the war-torn country.
Cultural Artifacts
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How the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Might Curtail Antiquity Theft
The bottom line is that current laws on the trade of antiquities are insufficient, allowing the looting of culturally significant property to continue.
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The Louvre Shouldn’t Exhibit Trafficked Antiquities from Libya and Syria
The museum forgets that it is already a violent graveyard of colonial-era cultural trophies removed from their homelands under dubious circumstances.
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Stumbling Towards Repatriation
We need to make it clear to our museums that we do not want to walk around in galleries of stolen artworks.
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A Bill Offers California’s Indigenous Tribes Ownership of Ancestral Objects
Also, a work by Paolo Uccello, sold in a Sotheby’s sale this July for $3.1 million, was revealed to be looted by Nazis.
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A Native American Shield Highlights a Legal Loophole About the Export of Cultural Artifacts
The appearance of a stolen sacred shield at a Paris auction house prompted a New Mexico Senator to propose the STOP Act, which would ban the trafficking of certain cultural items outside the United States.
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Understanding the Migrant Caravan in the Context of Imperial Plunder and Dispossession
The publication of Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy’s report recommending the restitution of stolen African objects and the approach of what is called a “migrant caravan” toward the US is not a coincidence.