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During the Syrian war, a group of archeologists risk their lives to record the damage being done to their country’s cultural heritage, just as it was being taken away from them.https://kerningcultures.com/syrias-stolen-memories/
The U.S. Department of Justice filed for the civil forfeiture of a massive trove of Khmer artifacts looted from Cambodia and trafficked by late antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford who allegedly forged provenance documents and used offshore trusts to sell looted art.https://www.occrp.org/en/news/us-artifacts-sold-by-pa...
Shawnee State University Professor Amr al-Azm and Antiquities Coalition founder Deborah Lehr tell host Steve Clemons about their efforts to curtail the artefacts flooding to the West from all corners of the globe.https://www.aljazeera.com/video/the-bottom-line/2021/12/23/how-did-the-us-become-a-major-hub-for-stolen-anc...
Trained as an anthropologist, Katie Paul’s road to becoming a social media and big tech watchdog began with witnessing the trafficking of ancient artifacts, often through Facebook groups, in the Middle East and North Africa.https://www.newsweek.com/2021/12/24/americas-greatest-disruptors-paradigm-shifters-1659078.html
Illicit trade in cultural heritage finds a home on social networks, study reveals.https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/15/balkan-based-looters-share-tips-on-facebook
For decades, staggeringly valuable antiquities were a brisk trade in Manhattan, with posh antiques galleries lining Upper East Side avenues.https://nypost.com/2021/11/30/inside-the-stolen-art-trade-of-nycs-upper-east-side/
With many of Nepal’s art and artifacts being repatriated, questions still remain about how those antiquities left the country and what will happen to them when they come home.https://www.recordnepal.com/the-unplundering-of-nepals-artifacts
Is it a crime to steal back something that was once yours? That’s the question we’ll tackle this week, as we look at a string of sophisticated art heists aimed at reclaiming some stolen heritage objects. And we’ll explore how Facebook is facilitating the illicit trafficking of stolen cultural objects, all out in the op...
854,742 items of cultural property were seized last year, including coins, medals, paintings, sculptures and antique books.https://www.occrp.org/en/news/interpol-cultural-property-thefts-rise-in-the-wake-of-pandemic?