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Over 200 Colonial and Republican objects stolen from Guatemalan Museum

Posted on 1 June 2015

On 16 May 2015, the private and unopened Museo Guatemalteco de Arte was robbed.

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Cultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of… me

Posted on 15 January 2015

*Blush*/*Shameless self promotion*

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Failures and consequences of antiquities trafficking policy: rethinking ‘country-specific’ regulation

Posted on 19 December 2014

A taster abstract for one of the journal papers I have “in submission”.

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Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends

Posted on 17 November 2014

With a chapter by me!

Film Review

Dance of the Maize God: a beautiful film about the pillaging of the Maya past

Posted on 24 July 2014

Out of the looters trench and on to the computer in less than an hour: a film review from Belize.

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What we’ve lost: 2 stories of the Maya Buenavista vase

Posted on 12 July 2014

In this post I will present two stories about one Maya vase: what we would have thought if the vase was looted and what we know because it wasn’t.

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When looters find lost cities: Site Q and Ixtontón

Posted on 19 May 2014

Sometimes archaeologists don’t get there first…

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Two pots, two stories: vignette on the looting of Guatemala’s Maya past

Posted on 1 April 2014

How does an ancient Maya vase end up in a UK museum?

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Den of thieves: When art is stolen from a Latin American church it’s everyone’s loss

Posted on 6 March 2014

Six massive paintings by 18th Century painter Tomás de Merlo were stolen

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Looting Río Azul and “looting” the Detroit Institute of Arts

Posted on 27 July 2013

The controversy surrounding the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit

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“Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press

Posted on 7 June 2013

A chapter by me appears in a new book released this month by the Oxford University Press.

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Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain

Posted on 12 April 2013

Antiquities dealer, smuggler, and twice (at least) convicted felon Leonardo Patterson has been arrested in Spain

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