Hot this week: Syrian artefacts smashed?
“Hell yes, it was smuggled”: Stolen Cambodian statue is not the first Norton Simon has returned
Posted on 24 May 2014
Collector spent $16mil over 2 years mostly on smuggled Asian antiquities.
When looters find lost cities: Site Q and Ixtontón
Posted on 19 May 2014
Sometimes archaeologists don’t get there first…
Culture crime news 12–18 May 2014
Posted on 19 May 2014
Hot this week: The Santa Maria: Lost and found…by a looter?
Culture crime news 5–11 May 2014
Posted on 12 May 2014
Hot this week: Cornelius Gurlitt—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy.
High-altitude mummy looting: the Cerro El Plomo child
Posted on 7 May 2014
The first high-altitude frozen mummy found in Chile was located and then hidden by looters
Culture crime news 28 April–4 May 2014
Posted on 5 May 2014
Hot this week: Egypt discussion and Egypt repatriations.
The Power of Plausible Provenance
Posted on 28 April 2014
Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology
Culture crime news 21–27 April 2014
Posted on 28 April 2014
Hot this week: Forgery, forgery, forgery
Culture crime news 14–20 April 2014
Posted on 21 April 2014
Hot this week: A shameful slap on the wrist for a UK smuggler
‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast
Posted on 20 April 2014
Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.
Stolen painting? No: poor reporting.
Posted on 18 April 2014
The false theft and return of a fake of my favourite Colonial Latin American painting.