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.
Culture crime news: 7–13 Apr 2014
Posted on 14 April 2014
Hot this week: Terrible Op-eds
“LA Times OpEd Distorts Both Archaeology and the Law”
Posted on 7 April 2014
This post is by my colleague Tess Davis who generously allowed me to repost it here.
Culture crime news: 31 Mar–06 Apr 2014
Posted on 7 April 2014
Hot this week: FBI find thousands of illicit antiquities in home of 90-year-old collector
On BBC Radio Scotland talking about antiquities trafficking
Posted on 5 April 2014
Looting in India and the difficulties involved in prosecuting this type of crime.
De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France
Posted on 4 April 2014
12m long manuscript penned in the Bastille, stolen in 1982, smuggled into Switzerland, and ruled a good faith purchase in 1998.
“Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns
Posted on 3 April 2014
Bonham’s offers a stela owned by an Anonymous Swiss Collector, withdraws piece due to looting allegations.