2018-07-26 | Uncategorized
A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered the plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis, which dates from the 5th Century B.C.E., must be returned to Iran as the country from which authorities say it was stolen more than 80 years ago. To read the rest of this...
2018-07-22 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday the Berlin public prosecutor’s office and the state criminal police provisionally seized 77 properties, including apartments, houses and land belonging to members of the “Lebanese” Kurdish extended family “Remmo” worth an...
2018-07-21 | Uncategorized
In 2008, following a ten-year investigation coordinated by Prosecutor General Augustin Lazăr of Romania, a number of individuals were charged in connection with illegal excavations carried out in the dense forests of the Orăştie Mountains in the vicinity of the...
2018-07-21 | Uncategorized
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art warmly will open early admissions to its 11th annual postgraduate certificate program in the study of art crime and cultural heritage protection in September 2018. Held in Italy, this summer-long interdisciplinary...
2017-11-14 | Art & Culture
Just short of the opening of Washington DC’s new Museum of the Bible, journalist Kelly Crow has published an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal where she outlines recent conversations with former Museum of the Bible antiquities advisor, Scott...