August 31, 2000
CONTENTS:
- Zeugma's Plundered Mosaics
- Rescued fossil to be donated to museum
- STOLEN ART (Listings on Line) http://www.saztv.com/page9.html
- Video Motion Detection, Access Control
Zeugma's Plundered Mosaics
by Ozgen Acar
(see also our message of August 26, 2000)
Smugglers put Zeugma on the international agenda long before dam construction began. Since the 1970s, the Gaziantep Museum has received several warnings of smuggling activities and has conducted sporadic rescue excavations
full story at:
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/acar/acar8-29-00.asp
Rescued fossil to be donated to museum
By Larry Spears , TIMES STAFF WRITER
POINT RICHMOND -- Dick Spight, an environmentalist who doesn't think rare scientific treasures belong on the free market, explained Monday why he spent $167,500 to rescue a one-of-a-kind fossil from private collectors.
"It belongs in the hands of science, and not in the hands of pot hunters and profiteers who would risk losing it for their own questionable profits," he said.
On Sunday, Spight was the high bidder for the 200-million-year-old fossil. When it was found, the 7-inch reptile with wings gave scientists proof that vertebrates could glide 10 million years earlier than previously thought.
Spight, who offered the highest bid for the Icarosaurus siefkeri Sunday at a Butterfield & Butterfield auction in San Francisco, will donate it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Full story at Contra Costa Times:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/partners/nf/fossil_20000829.htm
STOLEN ART (Listings on Line)
http://www.saztv.com/page9.html Jonathan Sazonoff's continuously updated surveu of Stolen Art listings on line.
A page to bookmark
From: "Paul Fisher" sales@parsecuk.com
To: securma@museum-security.org
Subject: Video Motion Detection, Access Control
Date sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:54:50 +0100
Hello Museum Security Network
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