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British Geologist Who Took Pottery Shards From Iraqi Site Gets 15-Year Sentence 

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

Jim Fitton was found guilty of smuggling antiquities after 12 small pottery shards were found in his luggage at a Baghdad airport.

Posted inOpinion

How the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Might Curtail Antiquity Theft

Avatar photo by Salisha Kayum March 30, 2022March 31, 2022

The bottom line is that current laws on the trade of antiquities are insufficient, allowing the looting of culturally significant property to continue.

Posted inNews

The Ongoing Looting of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Heritage

Avatar photo by Emiline Smith March 10, 2022March 11, 2022

Artifacts stolen from the Kotawehera Rajamaha temple in Sri Lanka are the latest victims of longstanding looting and trafficking.

Posted inOpinion

A Benin Bronze With Fishy Provenance Goes to Auction

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson June 26, 2020March 9, 2021

While conversations about historic monuments ignite public debate, a small sculpture which was likely looted heads to auction at Christie’s Paris.

Posted inArt

“Looting”: The Revolt of the Oppressed

Avatar photo by vazirafyz June 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The genesis of the term “loot” in colonial India has racist origins. Now, after the US president called for the killing of those “looting,” its origins become increasingly significant.

Posted inArt

How Social Media is Allowing for Illegal Antiquities Trafficking

Avatar photo by Michael Press July 11, 2019July 12, 2019

The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project has published a critical report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open on Facebook.

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Protesters Object to Display of Looted Objects at Israel’s Bible Lands Museum

by Hakim Bishara February 5, 2019

Finds Gone Astray features 40,000 artifacts confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 50 years. The protestors demand the immediate removal of the exhibition and the repatriation of the stolen items to the Palestinian Authority.

Posted inArt

Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums Want Hidden

Avatar photo by Elizabeth Marlowe September 6, 2018September 5, 2018

Over 20,000 precious art objects were seized in a raid at dawn — what can this elucidate about beauty, theft, and the museum?

Posted inArt

What Central Africa’s War on Poaching Can Teach Us About Fighting the Plunder of Antiquities

by Christopher Jones July 5, 2016July 6, 2016

Calls for greater law enforcement efforts to fight antiquities trafficking have been growing ever since ISIS’ profiteering from the trade in looted antiquities became public knowledge in 2014. Two years later, concrete steps are finally being taken.

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Looters Kill Two Guards at Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 22, 2016February 23, 2016

Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.

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Study Finds ISIS Militants Aren’t the Only Ones Looting Syrian Archaeological Sites

by Laura C. Mallonee October 26, 2015October 31, 2015

ISIS’s systematic looting in Syria has captured the world’s attention, but a new study shows they’re not the only ones selling off the country’s cultural heritage.

Posted inOpinion

Marion True Does Not Deserve Our Sympathy

by Justin St. P. Walsh October 2, 2015October 5, 2015

Marion True, former curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, made headlines recently by giving her first interview since 2007.

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