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reports of cultural property incidents 2002

This page is meant to offer information about cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire, forgery etc..contributions are most welcome!

The Museum Security Mailinglist started december 1996.
ARCHIVE: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
25 years of museum fires, 10 years of museum theft
Messages by Jonathan Sazonoff and Steve Keller

WW.II and the looted art problem

December 31, 2002
- HUARI, and the Kimbell Art Museum acquisition of a very rare Peruvian item
December 31, 2002
- Hermit dies after oil spill ruins his beach museum (Spain)
- Missing Roman goblet baffles museum (British Museum)
- International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection Announcement (San Simeon, CA)
- Is it altruism or the fear of losing their marbles?
- Poignant exhibition showcases Debaal artifacts 40 years after discovery (Beirut)
- Sculpture stolen from city gallery (Edinburgh)
- Seeking ownership record online (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum)
- Afghanistan Seeks Return of Antiquities
- Angkor temples, jewel of Cambodian heritage, under threat from tourist invasion
- Judge Halts Big Island Development
- Kimbell Art Museum Acquires Rare Peruvian Figurine
December 27 - 30, 2002
- Ł250,000 damage in museum arson attack
- Do you remember? December 31, 1999 theft of Cezanne painting: A warning....
- Japan Fire Destroys Old Lacquer Relics
- Looting Arizona's History
- Stolen Hassam painting returned to Thaxters
- Art And Evil
- High art floored by low morals
- break-in at the Antique Center of Wallingford
- Museum probe far too soon
December 22 - 26, 2002
- Stolen Paintings Found in Ireland
- Rip in the Rembrandt: A dreaded museum tale
- Ex-Sotheby's Boss Guilty
- Iraq Hands Back Paintings, Gifts Taken from Kuwait
- Answers just out of reach in art hunt: Christie's won't reveal possible holder of painting
- Couple charged over Irish art theft
- When thieves steal art, they steal from all of us
- Reassembling Sundered Antiquities (about the museum directors declaration against recuperation of 'stolen' antiquities)
- Copying the Marbles
- L.A. Man Sues for Picasso Stolen by Nazis
- Australia: Art treasures may be Nazi loot
- Art treasures alert as Paris faces floods
- Breakages and bungling at British Museum (artefacts from ancient Greece and Rome are being mislaid, broken and poorly protected in British Museum)
- product info: Euronova museum security systems
- forgery: The art of deception (China)
December 21, 2002
three reports about the return of Turner paintings:
- Stolen Turner works found after eight-year hunt
- Tate retrieves its stolen Turners and makes Ł15m
- Stolen Turners rescued in Tate's secret deal

- Stolen salmon sculpture recovered
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
December 17, 18, 2002
- Museums balk at art returns; Objects acquired centuries ago not negotiable
- Taiwan returns looted China Buddha head
- Metal detectors may lead to iron bars
- Attack on Thatcher's statue was 'work of art'
- More problems for Athens
- Return of remains at risk
- Museums that seek to retain plundered or culturally sensitive artefacts should think again
- State Hermitage Refuses to Return Works of Art
- Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia; Renovation of two palaces (Jos van Beurden)
- Austrian City to Return Looted Art
December 12 - 15, 2002
- U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art
- Afghans' lost city plundered for illegal London art trade
- RE: Honest fakes ??? (Barbara Tapp)
- RE: Honest fakes ??? (Cheryl Maslin)
- Sculpture stolen (The carved head of an African king stolen from a car)
- Greece Affirms Limits to Elgin Marbles Claim
- Italian loan puts marbles pressure on British Museum
- Re: U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art (Warren Ruder)
- Image of diamond (carbonado) missing from Museon The Hague, The Netherlands
- Afromet Replies to European, American Museum Directors
(AFROMET declares that the Museum Directors' statement is no more than Eurocentric special pleading)
- Press Release ICOM - repatriation of Cultural Property
- Re: U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art (Clifford Scheiner)
- The directors of 18 European and American art museums go too far! They are impolite and unjust (Cultural Heritagewatch, China)
- Klimt Art Suit May Proceed, Court Says (Plaintiff against Austria hopes to recover paintings seized by the Nazis in 1939)
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
- Prado's lost fish, missing for 28 years, finally surface
- Nevada Indian cave looter hit with $2.5 million civil penalty
- Buried treasures (The blitz transformed Britain's bumbling approach to war - and left its great art ready to withstand nuclear attack)
December 11, 2002
- $6m art thief gets five years
- Schiphol Airport Museum opens days after theft of Van Gogh works in Amsterdam
- Library director charged with selling copies of ancient book
- Museums get tough on 'trophy' returns
- Keeping Cultural Heritage Out of Harm's Way
- Observations regarding the Van Gogh Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- June 2003: Conference on forgeries in Island
- John Myatt: art fraud gets an opportunity in the art world
- Edinburgh fire 'could last for days' (The city's Old Town district has been designated a World Heritage Site by Unesco)
- 2-year Art Museum sprinkler plan approved
December 10, 2002
- Museums thwart artefact claims
December 5 - 9, 2002
- News Report of Manuscript Theft
- Lee Krasner Pollock paintings reported missing
- Feds Target Fossil Poachers
- gold necklace disappears from Zimbabwe Natural History Museum
- Holocaust Survivor Wants Paintings Returned
- Mob behind Van Gogh thefts?
- Iraqis kept Kuwait treasures
(7,000 priceless paintings and sculptures, 13,000 historic books, thousands of ancient prayer rugs and royal seals dating to the Babylonian Empire stolen and transported to Iraq)
- Inside the world of art forgery
- Mistrial declared in theft trial of art gallery director
- HIGHLIGHTS OF TRACE MAGAZINE, DECEMBER ISSUE 166 LOOTED ART SPECIAL
- The fate of the Parthenon sculptures in Athens
December 4, 2002
- Settlement on Painting Captured in Holocaust
- more on Netherlands diamonds theft: Museum gem theft dazzles Dutch police
- Japan slams the door on stolen artwork
- Ex-cleaner admits owning stolen art
- MI6 tipped off Yard's art squad over dhow sale
- Prevention from flooding damage by early warning
December 2, 2002
- Gems worth millions stolen from museum's diamond exhibition
November 29 - December 2, 2002
- Re: query: To lock down or not to lock down? (Ken Vail)
- Missing Van Eyck Still Holds Attention
- Art given to family of Auschwitz victim
- Does this museum face same risk of flawed electrical system?
- UK: Ancient sites at risk
- Namatjira painting stolen
- Stolen Ancient Relics Returned to Egypt
- Missing head of Buddha on its way home
- Masterpiece art work is stolen from Baltic
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
November 28, 2002
- query: To lock down or not to lock down? (Brian Appleford, St. Louis Science Center)
- Free trial software for museums, galleries, etc
- Italian police hand recovered Orthodox artifacts to Russia
- ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM HEIST: Men Sentenced For Attempted Armored Car Robbery Defense Claims FBI Staged Crime For Information
- Stolen painting sold in pub
- The Art World: Preserving Iraq's patrimony
- DCMS Press releases
November 21 - 26, 2002
- Third of Italy's World Heritage at Risk
- Uffizi faces lights out over unpaid bill
- query: Fire Drill Procedures
- The Aksum Obelisk: A Disquietening View
- SW China Sets up Fossil Protection Body
- Tip leads to rare prosecution in artifact theft
- Steal-to-order gangs feared behind theft of priceless Usk Castle relic
- Watches worth millions stolen in Geneva
- Until framed evidence arrives, a delay
- Trial starts for New York man with talent for art forgery
- 6 mil. yen painting stolen from Kanagawa offices
- Mali: Stolen statuettes go home
- Smuggler's blues: Japan will sign a convention to return stolen artifacts, but cultural affairs officials are skeptical
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
November 20, 2002
- Four stolen rare books returned to St. Petersburg libraries
(Police Detain Two More In Rare-Book Theft Case )
- ARTS MINISTER PLACES TEMPORARY EXPORT BAR ON A ROMAN MARBLE WELLHEAD
- Conference in London: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNESCO 1970 CONVENTION
November 17, 2002
- 12 stolen colonial paintings retrieved in Peru
- 8 colonial sculptures stolen in the Cathedral of Lima-Peru
- Stolen Stradivarius has yielded a fiddle battle as Dallas owner sues workshop owner
November 15, 2002
- Press release Art Loss Register
- Vienna police confiscate valuable Schiele painting looted by Nazis
- Man Steals Over 3,000 Books, Tapes
- Unesco moving to broaden its heritage list
- Thief swipes sculpture from gallery
- Digging by the book
- Collector's Letter Turns Out to Have Been Stolen from Missouri State University
- Museum visitor steals horn off stuffed rhino
- Rise in antiquities theft vexes Israel's 'Indiana Joneses'
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
November 10 - 13, 2002
- Copy of Newton's Principia stolen from Russian library
- Fired employee sues Art Institute
- Jordanian expert says no danger of Al Aqsa wall collapse
- Ray of light for Marbles?
- Greek minister on Marbles mission
- British Museum considers Elgin Marbles 'swap' to reduce Ł6m debt
- Berne Declaration
- The so-called James ossuary
- Nok, Nigeria and the Netherlands
- Special: urgent need for support the National Museum in Afghanistan
- Museum sinks hope of marbles deal; Greek culture minister fobbed off with tea but no sympathy
- RE:Art Sales War-Looted Art (Connie Lowenthal)
- Historic Newton Book Stolen from Library (continued)
- Farmer With Ancient Coins Arrested
- Israeli Official Doubts Jesus Reference on Casket
- Fate of artifacts on hold
November 9, 2002
- Three months after devastating floods Dresden's famed Old Masters gallery and Semper Opera to reopen
- Federation of Library Associations: Conference on disasters
- Pair of paintings stolen from Art League storage
- Egypt tries to stop sale of bust by Charterhouse
- The saga of the missing marbles: Greece's hopes of forcing Britain to return the Parthenon Marbles by 2004 have hit a new snag
November 8, 2002
- Museum fire forces evacuation; exhibits are undamaged
- Return of sculpture postponed
- As the threat of war grows, archaeologists make plea to spare Iraq's treasures
- School's museum sale 'is immoral'
November 5, 2002
- Dionysus Statue To Be Given Back To Turkey
- query: Alarm systems
- Crocodile tears as fossil gets hijacked
- Former Solutia guard sentenced to prison for stealing art
- Family accuses National Gallery of breaking terms of bequest
- Emergency rescue required for cultural relics in Three Gorges dam area
November 4, 2002
- Art sales: war-looted art
- Thieves target cemetery art in Quebec
- Keep the marbles in Britain
November 3, 2002
- Unesco Courier October 2002
- 'Mafia' gangs threaten Afghanistan's archaeological treasures
- Iraq’s history is our history too
November 2, 2002
- Goudstikker Painting Restituted--Press Release sent on behalf of Lawrence M. Kaye, Esq
- Elgin Marbles letter for sale
- Cypriot Land Mines; Military, Polical and Archaeological
- query: Art Object Identification by Number
- Re. the Art Gallery of Ontario's letter about the Hermitage Museum (Sharon Flescher, IFAR)
- Return of amulet puts pressure on British Museum
- Local Library Cuffs Book Crooks
- Ossuary Damaged en Route to Canada
- Worried about art-rich Florence, Berlusconi raises possibility government will give orders to cancel anti-globalization meeting there next week
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
October 23 - 28, 2002
- Police recovers stolen antiquities of Kapurthala's royalty
- Thieves pillage Iron Age fort
- Losing marbles acceptable (only 7 per cent of Brittons oppose return Parthenon Marbles).
More information: http://www.museum-security.org/elginmarbles.html
- Museum looted of antique train cars
- personal message Angela Meadows Blackwell
- Workshop on Disasters
- Museum finds antique firearms were still loaded
- stolen Albert Tucker painting kept in cellar for up to 14 years
- Iraq's precious relics decimated by thieves; ancient sites lie vulnerable since Gulf War
- Book for review: "Mediterraneum. Protection of cultural and environmental patrimony"
- Culture drain: addressing the illegal traffic of our cultural artifacts
- blackpowder safety (Gary Yee)
- blackpowder safety (Dave Heidenthal)
- 4 Sculptures Stolen In Santa Fe
- valuable work of art stolen from the Johannesburg Art Gallery and vandalised
- Portrait of the Denmark art heist as a Hollywood film
- Dinosaur model stolen from children´s museum
- Damaged dinosaur returns to museum
- The Toronto Museum of Stolen Art
- We're not trafficking in stolen art (Matthew Teitelbaum, director Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto)
October 20, 2002
- Church loot payment for drug dealers
- Italian police uncover traffic in ancient artifacts
- Libraries face privacy test
- International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) Presents: "Copyright or Copywrong?
- Scientist guilty of selling brains
- Tracking Down Dino Thefts
- Court Upholds Monument Protections
- 10 great places to be awed by world heritage
- Dionysos Statue To Be Given Back To Turkey
- Egypt retrieves a rare archaeological piece from Germany
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
October 17, 2002
- re: hunting Nazi art online (Connie Lowenthal)
- THE APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE
- Version of Old Egypt Library Opens
October 16, 2002
- Warrant issued for celebrity chef
- Hunting Nazi art online. Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II.
- Supreme Court refuses to review challenge to Indian artifact law
- Archaeology is new target for Ukraine's mafia gangs
October 13, 2002
- Stolen Painting Recovered ("One Hundred Missing Objects. Looting in Europe")
- 2003 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Crystal Gateway Marriott * Arlington, Virginia * February 2-5, 2003
- Gold items worth 5 million yen snatched from museum
- Debating Future of Buddhas Destroyed by Taliban
- Archaeology: Pile of Rocks Sends Mexican Indian to Prison
- TURKEY REQUESTS STOLEN IZNIK TILES BACK FROM QATAR
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
October 11, 2002
- Flood damage in the Czech Republic (National Technical Museum in Prague request for help)
- Sweden signs UNESCO convention on antiquities
- Pre-Columbian figure being auctioned over Internet recovered
October 9, 2002
- MANHATTAN: MAN ACCUSED OF SELLING FAKE ART
- 15th-century marble statue shatters after falling at New York's Metropolitan Museum
- Jordanian team begins repairs on disputed Jerusalem holy site
- Explorers to Try to Salvage Warship
- Turner's family fight to reclaim paintings
- Lowry bust is stolen from hotel
- FTC takes action against fake Native artwork
- Britain returns stolen sunken treasure to Italy
October 8, 2002
- Two stolen paintings by Fernando Botero recovered in Colombia
October 7, 2002
- query: insurance on works of art
- Mood of criminal intent at museum
- Kenya: Loss Of Artefacts May Diminish Role Of Museums
- Charges dropped in library case
- Florida marine explorers reach agreement with Britain to try to recover gold-laden ship
- Italy to loan Greece 'lost' antiquity
October 5, 2002
- Police investigate theft from Fine Arts museum
- Police Search Church for Missing Art
- Teotihuacan's most important temple in danger of disappearing
- 200-year-old dagger stolen from museum
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
October 2, 2002
- Fragment of Greek history to reignite row over Marbles
- Nazi loot claim 'compelling'; British museum may have to return the drawings
- U.K. Museum Mistakenly Sells Skull
- Museum eyed in firing of Muslim
- Athens Archaeological Museum to Close
- Hunt for speeding car in art haul dragnet
October 1, 2002
- Police arrest municipal worker with antiquities
- Paper reports high-level Israeli meeting about dangers of bulging wall at holy site
- Now Van Eyck missing panel is mystery wrapped in a riddle
- Treasures of Babylon are moved as bombers strike
- Keller Associates Security Alert
- Ł1,000 reward offered for return of 'obscene' artwork stolen from church
September 30, 2002
- Russborough House suffers 4th art raid two days after return of paintings.
September 29, 2002
- Swiss authorities return stolen art to Italy
- Underworld deal leads police to art
- CALL TO SAVE ANCIENT SITES FROM DAMAGE
- Library Vandal Gets Big Fine for Defacing SF Books
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
September 27, 2002
- query: books and Security strips
- Plaque to Gogol's 'Nose' Imitates Original
- Conference on fakes
- Suspect in Art Theft Awaiting Extradition
- Belgium: Thieves steal church art
- Treasure verdict on silver hook
September 26, 2002
- concert in support of the Czech Flood Relief Fund
- European archaeologists launch appeal for flood-plagued Czechs
- Lasers best for cleaning priceless paintings
- The struggle over Giacometti's legacy
- Assisi frescoes rise from the rubble
- Utah to Get Back Stolen Dinosaur
- Modern curse has tomb robbers trembling; Egypt’s antiquities police promise Pharaonic revenge on smugglers
- man jailed for handling "stolen" paintings, including two by Gainsborough and Reynolds, is fighting for a retrial.
- Philadelphia: Museum reach plan on sprinklers
September 19, 2002
- Letter to the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires warn of World War II Loot
September 19, 2002
- London talk about wartime looted art treasures and Italy
September 19, 2002
- The Schřyen Collection and manuscripts "illicitly" exported out of Afghanistan
September 19, 2002
- One of Europe's largest pieces of amber stolen
- Icon returned to Russia 45 years after theft from church
- Philadelphia: City to audit Art Museum on fire safety
- A Titian Is No Longer at Large; Its Thief Is
- Dresden's flooded Semper Opera to perform "Carmen" in car plant
September 18, 2002
- Dutch judge failes to grant the return stolen Nok terracotta sculptures to Nigeria.
- Fake Antiques Hit U.S. Market
- fifty Czech libraries inundated; 600.000 volumes soaked
- Restitution of Ethiopian Artefacts
September 16, 2002
- Endangered Treasures: Curators vs. firefighters, there is no national policy on museum fire protection
(Long-standing fire code violations at Art Museum leaves priceless works at risk)
- Benin bronze given to Queen was taken from Nigerian museum
- PICTURE OF FAMOUS RUSSIAN PAINTER AIVAZOVSKY STOLEN
- Product information: New updated homepage Profort.com
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
September 10, 2002
- Picture-Postcard Church Destroyed by Fire
- Dinosaur footprint stolen from rock on Texas ranch
- Looted Indian Treasures Are Sought
September 9, 2002
- Police recover seven more priceless paintings, ending major art heist
- UNESCO CALLS FOR UNIVERSAL RATIFICATION OF THE 1970 CONVENTION,
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE SET BY KEY ART MARKET COUNTRIES
- Moon Dust Stolen From Sweden Museum
- Now You See Art, Now You Don't
September 7, 2002
- Lifelike statue of Adolf Hitler kneeling in prayer shakes up Dutch art scene
- Nazi death march museum firebombed
- Art theft victim mum on losses
- Ethiopian officials in Italy to seek return of ancient obelisk
- Obelisk To Be Broken Up for Return to Ethiopia
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
September 4, 2002
- French archaeological team expelled from Afghanistan
- Residential burglary bags Picassos and other art worth dlrs 700,000 in San Antonio
- Plundered Peru struggles to find missing treasure
- Tagging your Treasures
- The Art Newspaper; This week's top stories
August 29, 2002
- Flood Report - Czech Republic
August 29, 2002
- Stolen classics
- Historical artifacts (university property) found in student's home
- ISC Technology Report #3 (Steve Keller)
- Three charged over art thefts
- more on the European floods
August 28, 2002
- foolproof new system for identifying contemporary paintings
- Germany to Spend 100 Mln Euro on Flooded Art Sites
- report on the flooding in Dessau and Wörlitz
August 27, 2002
- Biblical Archaeology Review ignores dubious origin of Martin Schřyen collection
- investigation: Antiquities Research - New York, London, Bangkok, Hong Kong
- Preparing materials for freeze-drying
- ART THEFT INCREASES IN AFRICA
- Paintings stolen during robbery
- How the hunt for Ł5m Titian ended with an old man, a bag and a bus stop
August 24, 2002
- Metropolitan Police Art and Antique Crime Course
- Ancient coins sold in Plaka
- Thieves steal rare Dickens books from museum
- Ł5m stolen Titian painting found in plastic bag
- ISC Technology Report #2 (Steve Keller)
- Treasure hunt hits the Web; State hopes to find stolen Indian art
- Sotheby's is reacting angrily to media reports questioning the authenticity of the $120 million Rubens painting
- Symposium on emergency planning (APTI-ICOMOS Canada Symposium)
- Article on salvage operations for water damaged archival collections
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THE FLOODS IN EUROPE:
- Press Release: On the State of the Rescue Measures in the Old Masters Picture Gallery
- The Albertinum is open again!
- Hochwasserkatastrophe (Klaus Graf)
- Flut in Sachsen
- UNESCO launches website Floods in Europe
- several flood links.....
- Description of the recent situation in Archaeological Institute in Prague
- Opfer der Flut in Tschechien
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- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
August 20, 2002
- Glass Art Shattered at Chihuly Exhibit. Private Party's Guests Questioned.
- Jail for Ł63,000 art thief
- product information: SC technology report (Steve Keller)
- Flood damages in Europe (Kulturschaeden durch Flutkatastrophe)
- Antiques, art lost as Barrydale hotel burns
August 17, 2002
- Art saved from European floods
- Flooded German Museum Saves Art
- Ancient tombs looted for antiques
- Police seize 152 pre-Columbian artifacts in southern Mexico
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
August 16, 2002
- Byzantium treasures stolen from Turkish museum
- Fake bronzes flood market
- TREASURE LAW SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING MORE FINDS ON SHOW
- Time running out for southwest Missouri artifacts
- Gables pair lay claim to old tapestry (Art belongs to us -- not to man who says he owns stolen item)
- 'Meteorite man' arrested again
August 15, 2002
- Break leads to stolen paintings
- Police arrest 2 in theft of Higashiyama artwork
- Archaeologists searching for Genghis Khan's tomb accused of grave desecration
- International Journal of Cultural Property -- Table of Contents Alert
- CCAHA’S DISASTER MITIGATION FOR CULTURAL COLLECTIONS
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
August 8, 2002
- Dublin Rubens recovered after 16 years
- Gold cauldron believed sunk in German lake by Nazis raises ownership questions
- UK: GOVERNMENT SIGNS UP TO UNESCO CONVENTION TO TACKLE ILLICIT TRADE IN ART AND ANTIQUITIES
- Product info: Diurnal theft prevention
August 7, 2002
- Museum Toting Up Damage (after motorist drove his vehicle through a wall)
- Treasures from the deep (Breitwieser background story)
- Euro billions' art thief (Breitwieser) mother freed
- Firm Fights for Right to Sell Titanic Artifacts (UNESCO estimates that more than 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks litter the world's ocean floors)
- Greece demands theft explanation
- HIGHLIGHTS OF TRACE MAGAZINE, ISSUE 162
August 4, 2002
- Mystery of lost Achaemenid gold tablet still unsolved
- 2500-YEAR-OLD ANCIENT GREEK MARBLE HEAD STOLEN FROM BRITISH MUSEUM
- Paraguay Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Preussische Tafelkultur bei Christie's
- Two Maxfield Parrish murals stolen from California gallery; each painting worth dlrs 2 million
- Symposium on Problematic Paintings
- Stolen Art Summer update (Jonatham Sazonoff)
- Swiss To Crack Down On Stolen Art
July 30, 2002
- Robbers dig tunnel in art robbery
- Facility's antiquated wiring sparks museum's safety concerns
- Marbles Lost and Found (In the Parthenon's Shadow, an Old Grievance Gets Put on a Pedestal)
- Egypt: Bring back Queen Nefertiti, Rosetta stone
July 29, 2002
- STATEMENT FROM SOTHEBY'S REGARDING THE RUBENS
July 27, 2002
- Stolen Chagall Returns to Home Museum
- Stolen Picasso recovered in France
- Sotheby's faces another fraud investigation
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
July 23, 2002
- WW.II. Looted Treasures in England's Regional Museums
July 21, 2002
- Our Obelisk and the African Union
- Italy at last returning obelisk to Ethiopia (Monument was looted by Mussolini in '37)
- Skull's origin at issue in trial over its sale
- Money laundering behind art deal
- Grave robbers loot family burials on historic mound
- Workshop on disasters
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
July 19, 2002
- Spain: Archaeological Treasures Recovered
- Priceless artwork nicked from Joburg gallery
- Artifact-rich Israel finds looting on the rise
- Vandals damage 12th century Indian ruins at national monument in Arizona
- British Museum willing to discuss return of Elgin Marbles
- Pres Release: ARTS MINISTER ACTS TO PROTECT HISTORIC SHIPWRECK
July 16, 2002
- Experts demand halt to 'Elgin Marbles museum'
- Vandals on the Acropolis
- State police recover $250,000 in stolen antiques
- Egypt reclaims pharaoh of Niagara Falls
July 15, 2002
- HIGHLIGHTS OF TRACE MAGAZINE, ISSUE 161
- Re: Elia article (Digging Up Dirt; An antiquities case unearths corruption)
- Mask of Sorrow. Hand it over, say Island aboriginals, but British Museum is unmoved
- hvac in museums
July 14, 2002
- U.S. joins fight over looted art
- The art detective
- Guardians with a cross to bear
- US to return Pharaoh's mummy to Egypt
- For your eyes only: the art of the obsessive
- Stolen, or not? Egyptians claim artifact in Virginia museum is stolen
- France tries 16 people for pillaging art from chateaux
- The Art Newspaper, this week's top stories
July 11, 2002
- Ask the FBI: Art theft and recovery
July 7, 2002
- Paintings stolen from Budapest Museum
- Princeton Offers Return of Sculpture
- Caddo Indian tribe's graves being plundered for pottery
- The art Newspaper; this week's top stories
July 4, 2002
- Privatization Irony (Clifford Scheiner)
- product info: CCTV
- Stained-glass panels looted during WWII return to Germany from Russia
- Swiss museum reaches out of court deal on Kandinsky painting
- Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik, ICOM patronage, UNESCO, invitation
- Britain's Thatcher 'Beheaded' at Art Gallery
- Looting remains a threat at site. Archaeological dig remote, police few
July 2, 2002
- Major U.S. Museums and Auction Houses have just received one of the largest Holocaust-related art claims in Decorative Arts.
July 2, 2002
- Another theft from museum in The Netherlands
- Script Question
- Following up on the recent Madrid recovery (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Museum workers strike to protest privatization plans for monuments
- Annual Conference International Committee for Museum Security
June 29, 2002
- Cataclysm and Challenge, destruction of cultural heritage September 11...
- Water damage temporarily closes Florida Adventure Museum
- eBay still a victim of fraud (eBay? eBay buyers apparently remain the real victims)
- British Museum impoverished, says director
- 9 Sites Added to World Heritage List
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
June 28, 2002
- Another enigmatic theft in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- looted painting from SCHLOSS COLLECTION returned!
- Missing half of stolen painting found
- product info: fingerprint door loack
June 27, 2002
- Egyptian customs foiled yesterday an illegal bid to export to Spain around 400 antique coins and artefacts....
- Russians work to restore paintings from the gutted shell of Grozny's museum
- Denver dealer rigged stamp bids
- Art Cime Site
June 26, 2002
- Fire Extinguisher Query
- GRIEVING MOTHER'S ART THEFT ANGUISH
- Archeologists worry about looting on Indian sites during fires
- Client Security Alert From Steve Keller
- Stolen works of art worth millions found in car boot after police sting
- Spanish Police and F.B.I. Get Their Men and Stolen Art
- Depot's climate may jeopardize art (Floating soot threatens site's valuable artifacts)
- Parliament Warns Italy Over Return of Axum Obelisk
- Rare Roman objects missing after dig
- Art detectives track stolen paintings
- Al-Qaida plot to blow up Bologna church fresco
June 25, 2002
- Culture sleuths make strides on the trail of stolen treasures
- Russia's Hermitage museum returns stained-glass panels looted during WWII to Germany
- Detenidos dos de los ladrones de los cuadros de Esther Koplowitz
June 24, 2002
- Egypt to press for protecting Palestinian religious sites
- Ancient manuscripts lifted from Polish castle
- On the trail of Milosevic's millions
- Digging Up Dirt (An antiquities case unearths corruption)
- Archaeological looting: US gets tougher on lucrative crime
- Sculpture stolen in '79 is returned
- Germany Returns Russian Paintings Stolen in WWII
- Most of paintings stolen from Spanish billionaire recovered
- follow-up on the museum fire in SA from Arab News
- South Florida lures cultured smugglers
- product information: Automated key management
- MINEOLA: MUSEUM OFFICIAL ARRESTED
- Even archaeology affected by Kosovo's ethnic strife
June 15, 2002
- Ethiopia despairs about obelisk
- Stolen Egyptian artifact removed from sale by Christie's
- Dipankar idol in Vienna awaits legal assistance
- Manhattan Art Dealer Sentenced
- Museum to Return Aborigine Skulls
- Fire Destroys Parts of Saudi Museum
- Archaeologists are opposed to exchanges and loans of antiquities outside Greece
( Article in new bill puts monuments at risk of being taken abroad indefinitely)
June 10, 2002
- 4 ancient idols recovered in Jhabua
- Possibility of Stolen Dipankar Idol's Return Feeble
- Churches fall victim to rising wave of drug-driven thefts
- British Museum to Close as Staff Votes to Strike
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
June 7, 2002
- Photography Policy
- RE: Camera restrictions
- high value art
- security product information (diurnal theft prevention)
- Reclaiming Art Caught in the Cuban Revolution
- Beyond the Human Toll, History and Artifacts Lost
- Mystery of Missing $1.6M Stradivarius
- Sears Settles Wyeth Painting Dispute
- Aristocrats employ art thief to track down stolen Ł10m pictures
- re: cameras use
- Museum desperately seeks password hacker
June 4, 2002
- query: use of cameras by visitors
- Giacometti sculpture stolen (Thieves steal sculpture from Hamburg museum and replace it with copy)
- Chef's art theft trial date set
- There was a bookish man (the William Jacques book thefts)
- Supreme Court passes up chance to get involved in fight over Hitler art
June 3, 2002
- Buckingham Palace fire threatens jubilee party; Salvage team swoops to protect precious works
- Fund for reviving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage announced
- Experts decide not to re-create Afghan's smashed Buddha statues
- Art heist (Breitwieser and objects returned to Denmark)
- The not-so-fine art of stealing a masterpiece
- Turner's death mask missing, says Academy
- Coin detectors damaging archaeological sites in NWFP
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
June 1, 2002
- Greece: new Antiquities law
- Thwarting Art Thieves on a Budget
- Wrong monetary estimates of Breitwieser thefts
- A curator of lost art and recovered memories
- 'Looted pictures' claim against British Museum
- Created centuries ago by indigenous American peoples, these fine examples of rock art are today being lost to wanton vandalism
- Mural at Sakharov Museum Vandalized
- Storm over Ethiopian Obelisk Lightning Strike
- Illegal excavations continue as officials look other way
May 26, 2002
- Looking for some answers on accessibility
- Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property - Belgium, the receivers' paradise
- Vanishing books, a secret passageway make a heist fit for a novel in France
- Judge gives go-ahead to sell 1000 fake paintings
- Former museum director sentenced to six months for stealing and reselling Civil war uniform
- SOFIES Welcomes Cancelation of Auction of Ethiopian Treasures
May 24, 2002
- Namibia's meteorites under siege
- The mystery of the hilltop monastery, the locked room and the missing manuscripts
(Disappearance of priceless works baffled police for nearly two years)
- Museum and bank battle over guttering
- Museum strike off
- Slovenia wants return of 'Istria's jewels'
- Antiquities bill goes to Parliament
- Crime as old as the written word
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
May 23, 2002
- A significant Holocaust-related art claim has been filed in Paris against a major French museum
May 23, 2002
- A very bad waiter! - Strasbourg recovery notes (Jonathan Sazonoff )
- French waiter admits mass art theft
- Strike Threat Looms at London's British Museum
May 22, 2002
- Documentary film company producing three-part adaptation of The Rape of Europa
- Software for Scheduling Security Officers
- Return of the Amenhotep III Sculpture (Magnus Mitchell, the Art Loss register)
- Stolen art cut in half by raiders (Brücke Museum Berlin)
- A Town Rich in Stolen Art, but Not Nosy Questions
May 21, 2002
- Netherlands returns pharaoh to Egypt
- HEIRS OF GEORGE GROSZ RECOVER BERLIN PAINTING LOST WHEN GROSZ FLED NAZIS
- La collection d'un pilleur de musées retrouvée dans un canal alsacien
-Missing from World Trade Center rubble: a Rodin masterpiece, 'The Thinker'
- A Physics Test Can Catch a Faked Antique, But Forgers Are Catching On
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
May 19, 2002
- LOST-AND-FOUND BUDDHA (Stolen from Patan in January, a precious Buddha figure has been found in Vienna)
- 'Rip and run' raiders carve up the masterpieces of cartography for global trade in stolen maps
- Looting: A global crisis
- Art museum in a cash crunch: With shortfall of at least $20 million, collection may be used as collateral for loan
- China’s heritage at risk from museum
May 18, 2002
- moderator's message: virus warnings
- law suit against the Museum Security Network:
Federal Law Protects Online Moderators From Liability (Interactive Listserv Operators Cannot Be Sued for Message Content, Public Citizen Argues)
- Berlin Police Recover Stolen Art, Arrest Five
- Pursuing the Gardner heist
- Europe's small museums: a target for art thieves?
(Museum thief suspect an artful dodger. Waiter accused of stealing treasures worth $1.4 billion)
- Jewish Museum sues Czech ministry over collection of Nazi-looted artworks
- 20,000 to move from protected city
- Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel Now Available in Spanish!
- US asks for report on stolen Egyptian antiquities
- Stolen Art On The Web (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Museum guards threaten 48-hour strikes which will shut down ancient sites
- Iranians say Buddhist art is from Afghanistan
- The Loss of Ethiopia’s Cultural Heritage
- Painter tags work with own DNA to stop fakes
- Buddhist Monk Starts Fund to Rebuild Afghan Statues
- Iraq's economic collapse means the oldest writing in the world can be bought for a song on eBay
- CIVIL WAR DRUMMER BOY STOLEN FROM THE WOODLAWN CEMETERY
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
May 11, 2002
- NCMM Recovers Artifacts From Abroad (Nigeria)
- Oscar Wilde ring stolen from Oxford University college
- Stolen human head returned to museum
- La Rueda de Salvamento y Respuesta ante Emergencias
- WTC ART PLUNDER EYED
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
May 7, 2002
- 'Map and Book Theft' - new webpages
May 8, 2002
- LATEST RECOVERY FROM www.FindStolenArt.com
- Man Robs N.Y. Store of Rare Comics
- Re: Ł300,000 art theft may be work of hired 'kidnappers' (Chuck Quaste)
- Chinese lawmakers fiercely debated whether the country should open its cultural property market to private collectors
- Water damaged books
- PM returns home to art probe
May 5, 2002
- RE: skateboarders (Bob Ricker)
- Re: Ł300,000 art theft may be work of hired 'kidnappers' (Steve Keller)
- Art sleuths claim back Hitler's loot
- Artist appeals for return of Ł5,000 statue stolen from gallery
- From Museum Seized Moskvich Cars Returned
- Archaeologists try to protect China relics
- Torah pieces stolen in `69 found for sale on e-Bay
- The Artnewspaper; this week's top stories
May 1, 2002
- query: computer chip technology and securing artifacts
- 'Tome raider' convicted of plundering libraries
- Museum chief's art gets look from U.S.; Smithsonian director's collection examined for endangered species items
- art award (Michel van Rijn)
- RE: Skateboarders
- Restorers to use modern lasers to clean ancient marbles (Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum)
April 28, 2002
- RE: Skateboarders (Owen Sopotiuk)
- RE: Skateboarders (Ken Vail)
- Belgium action for the return of the Parthenon Marbles
- Judge Revives Case of Nazi-Looted Art
- 'Exquisite' auction raises questions; Kin of organizer of Lehigh Valley event investigated in Oregon.
- Europe's taxing authorities are putting their own art markets at a disadvantage.
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
April 25, 2002
- Theft Redouté, Les Liliacées, from University Library Utrecht
- query: security issue outside museum (Tom Meighan)
- Afghanistan: Art Finds Refuge In Switzerland While Awaiting Return Home
- Saga of Sotheby's fallen chief to be a book, movie
- School Returns Cambodia Sculptures
- The Hermitage in St Petersburg hit by thefts
- Why precious ruins are being ruined; Lecturer warns history is being lost as nation squanders fantastic archaeological heritage
- Cambodian Archaeologists Appeal for End to Illicit Excavations
April 24, 2002
- Treasure-Hunters Beaten, Tied to Trees
- Unlucky Lucre (on Berlin art heist)
- 320-Million-Year-Old Fossil Stolen
- Land with Ancient Indian Art to Be Protected
- Treasure reporting scheme at risk
April 23, 2002
- More on Berlin art heist
- Judge Sentences Sotheby's Former Chairman to A Year in Prison
- False idol: Author's research indicates MFA's Snake Goddess is a phony
- Ł300,000 art theft may be work of hired 'kidnappers'
- Ancient relics head home to Cambodia
April 20, 2002
- Art Theft from the Delaware Art Museum
- EU accuses auction houses of price-fixing
- Lawyers argue over sentencing of former Sotheby's chairman
- Afghanistan reels over extent of pillage
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
April 20, 2002
- Thieves steal nine masterworks from Berlin museum
April 19, 2002
- Purchase weapon collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam criticized
- Buddhist manuscripts smuggled out of Afganistan now in Norwegian collection
- Workshop on disaster management
- Workshop on emergency preparedness
- Union influence derails museums’ restructuring
- Valuable paintings stolen in raid
- Modern Icons. As China's ever expanding list of ancient relics grows, will any relics of former times remain?
- No Prison Time Is Recommended in Sotheby's Price-Fixing Case
- Earthquake damaged Arthens museum closed for renovations
- Dutch Promise Return of Nazi-Looted Art
April 16, 2002
- Re: Appeals court rejects plan to sell Titanic artifacts (Cheryl Maslin)
- antique pistols stolen from a museum at Port Arthur
- Austria in talks over 'looted' art
- Looting of Antiquities on the Rise
- Outlaw relic hunters disturb the peace of Civil War sites
April 15, 2002
- September 11: One Year After (New York/US, 19 October, 2002)
- Japan to ratify UNESCO pact on theft of cultural assets
- Gold Tuynhuys Tea Set Nicked
- Cultural Salvage in Wake of Afghan War
- UNESCO official urges stronger efforts to protect heritage
April 13, 2002
- security queries MOMA New York
- Smugglers caught with Sudan's first fully-preserved, authentic mummy
- Appeals court rejects plan to sell Titanic artifacts
- Art vandal released to work as museum guide
- RE: security queries MOMA New York (guard schedules software)
- Case Proceeds Against Austria Museum on Picture
- The Art Newspaper, this week's top stories
April 11, 2002
- RE: Tram driver training (Chuck Quaste)
- Afghan Sculptor to Rebuild Statues
- Germany says it will look for Russian art treasures here amid progress on looted art
April 9, 2002
- Egypt to send delegation to Netherlands to bring home stolen antiquity
- Re: Tram driver training (Steve Keller)
- Physicists Outwit Antique Forgers
- Ancient Roman villa may hold world's richest literary treasure
April 6, 2002
- The Louvre: receiver of stolen goods
- Symposium on disasters
- query: Tram Operator Training
- Press Release IFCPP
- Guards Fired for Allowing Sex in Museum
- Shrunken head, case missing from exhibit
- 2 face action in burial-site damage; Ruins excavated in national forest
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
April 4, 2002
- Historic Javanese Art Treasures Victims Of Looting
- Press release: HISTORIC CLAIM IS FILED AGAINST SWISS FOUNDATION TO RECOVER VALUABLE NAZI- LOOTED ART;
EXPECTED TO RESULT IN FAR-REACHING DECISION AFFECTING SWISS ART HOLDINGS
- Italy Asked to Return Ethiopia's historical treasures
April 2, 2002
- Museum evacuated after chemical leak
- Concern Raised on NK Articles in British Museum
- Stolen machine back on display
- Garage sale find a treasure ( Papua New Guinean stone kulap figures)
March 31, 2002
- Ł100,000 Denis Law painting stolen from Old Trafford
- Wild fire burns c. 500 acres at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
- Italy puts art cities under tight security on Easter
- US Extends Agreement to Protect Ancient Archaeological Materials in Peru
- Sunken galleons threatened by new port in Puerto Rico
March 29, 2002
- On errors in the article "Czechs to keep art taken by Nazis" (Pavel Jirasek)
- Re: British Museum sold Benin Bronzes for Ł75 each (Christopher Seal)
- Fire destroys historic Walton plantation
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
March 28, 2002
- RE: Frans Hals Museum Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Jewish Museum to file a suit against the ministry of culture
- Italian police show off paintings saved in major stolen-art investigation
- Appeals court orders mediation in international art dispute (about Klimt paintings)
March 27, 2002
- British Museum sold Benin Bronzes for Ł75 each
- Spalding claims museums put fakes on display
- Police seize another Salvador Dali painting
March 25, 2002
- Thieves steal Ł1.8m of paintings from Netherlands museum
March 25, 2002
- 'Horrified' Father Vandalizes London Corpse Show
- Athens museum awaits disputed Elgin marble
( television poll several years ago showed 90% of British citizens favored the marbles' return)
- European Union Question On Axum Obelisk
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
March 22, 2002
- Czechs to keep art taken by Nazis
(Lyons heir denied pieces declared national treasures)
- UK WILL SIGN UP TO UNESCO CONVENTION
- Afghan 'Mother of Towns' Faces Final Indignity
March 22, 2002
- "Speaking with Greece's Minister of Culture"
THE PARTHENON SCULPTURES
March 21, 2002
- Thieves loot Indian graves
- RE: query: Art theft from within museums (Lynne Chaffinch)
- Re: Demand Display of Returned Art (Trevor Reynolds)
- Russia protests over vandalism museum
- Customs officers prevent ancient bell smuggling
March 19, 2002
- Wartime Loot Gets a Too-Hasty Boot
- IFAR program on Georgia O'Keeffe
- Bolivia's pre-Hispanic burial towers endangered
March 18, 2002
- Cruise ship thief walks off with Picasso
- Demand Display of Returned Art
- PROTESTERS ON DISPLAY AT OPENING OF ‘NAZI' EXHIBIT
March 16, 2002
- court ruling on case against the Museum Security network
- RE: more on internal museum theft (Connie Lowenthal)
- Tracking of High value Assets - Now Available
- MUSEUM EVACUATED AFTER SHELL FOUND
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
March 13, 2002
- RE: Internal museum theft (David Hewitt)
- RE: Internal museum theft (Paul Schneider)
- RE: Internal museum theft (Anna Kisluk)
- Experts to determine whether painting seized by police is a Picasso original
- Ungarn sucht nach Fundort des Seuso-Schatzes
- Global tracking system - High Value Asset Tracking
March 11, 2002
- RE: query: Art theft from within museums (John Abounader)
- RE: query: Art theft from within museums (Steve Keller)
- RE: query: Art theft from within museums (Stevan Layne)
- Nearly $500,000 in trophies stolen from museum, hall of fame
- owner of a bulldozing equipment firm arrested after confiscating from the man’s country home in nearby Neapolis 17 bronze,
marble and clay artifacts dating from archaic, classical and Roman times
- Row over State control of French museums
March 10, 2002
- update lawsuit against the Museum Security Network
- COM (International Council of Museums) PRESS RELEASE, 5 March 2002:
NIGERIA'S OWNERSHIP OF NOK AND SOKOTO OBJECTS RECOGNISED
- id.id. STATUETTE RETURNED TO BURKINA FASO
- query: Art theft from within museums
- Art sales: Insurance crackdown
- Schatz aus der Bronzezeit in Basel beschlagnahmt
- Karzai Seeks Help to End Afghan Art Plundering
- L.A. Museum Returns Canopy To Poland
- Mexico: Theft of sculpture
- Judge refuses to dismiss 2nd Terra suit
- Three weeks of Art Newspaper Top Stories
February 19, 2002
More about art theft at Swedish antiques fair
February 17, 2002
- Swedish Art Theft
- English language version of story posted in German February 16: Bible theft shocks Hungary
- Ł800,000 Bible vanishes from councils safe
- Paintings worth more than $2.5 million US stolen from antique fair in Stockholm
- book announcement: The protection of the cultural heritages in war
- Italy busts relics-to-order crime ring. Antiquities from south sold to Milan collectors, police say
- Recovered Painting Is Missing Chagall -NY Museum
February 16, 2002
- Re: Special: tracing high value works of art in transit (Scott Malcolm)
- Re: Special: tracing high value works of art in transit (Steve Keller)
- Nok objects and the Quai Branly
- Stolen art from DR Congo via Uganda to Western markets; Diplomats involved
- Six women released after Ł2m art theft arrest
- CALL FOR PAPERS (due March 15, 2002).
ETHICS AND THE PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
- ART LOSS REGISTER ANOUNCES NEW WEBSITE TO FIGHT ART THEFT
- Theft at 'badly managed' Louvre
- Law eyed to target trade in stolen antiques on Net
- Plea for Return of Stolen Artefacts
- British Museum won't return religious artifacts to Ethiopia
- Damage leads to discovery (Vandalism repair helps experts date Indian shell mound )
- Head of new Acropolis museum denies delays
- California Quake? (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Retrieval of colonial paintings in Cuzco, Perú (Blanca Alva)
- Gold-diggers plague archaeological dig
- Greek Police Seize Rare Gold Wreath
- Kulturhistorisch wertvolle Bibel in Ungarn gestohlen
- IFAR program concerning the September 11th attacks
- A Ł1 million ransom demand has reportedly been made for a painting, 12 years after it was stolen.
- Art dealer convicted of selling stolen Egyptian artefacts
- Antiques from Afghanistan for sale on the internet
- Residents told to vandalise paving stones to stop thefts
- Cypriot authorities have granted bail to Frieda Tchacos as being on an island you can't swim
ashore. An extradition proceeding to Italy stands! from: http://www.michelvanrijn.com/)
- about the denationalization of italian museums
- Query: International Standards of Security Measures - Museums of Art
- Greek authorities uncover massive ancient artefact haul in house
- Stolen historical documents turn up on eBay
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
February 1, 2002
- La France souhaite mieux lutter contre le trafic international des ouvres d'art
- Re: Special: tracing high value works of art in transit
- Who's minding the Louvre? report demands
(Lax labour practices leave the door unattended, 22% of museum off-limits)
- Art smuggler reveals trade secrets
January 31, 2002
- Tracing high value works of art in transit
January 31, 2002
- The Trial of a Dealer Divides the Art World
- French Government and the Louvre in a War of Words
- Plans to rebuild Bamiyan Buddhas
- Louvre deal for Nigerian NOK statues
January 30, 2002
- trabajos en conchopata (Peru)
- FAKES FLOOD MARKET (Half of Asian Bronzes faked)
- Ancient Egyptian artefacts returned with pleas for more
- 17 hochkarätige Impressionisten nach US-Exil wieder in Basel
January 26, 2002
- ICMS 2002 Conference in the Czech republic
- Thieves demand Ł1m ransom for old masters
- EU INTERVENTION TO STOP THE SALE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES IN TURKEY
- The Island of Lost Maps (Book review)
- Ethiopians fly in to retrieve sacred artefact
- Museum urged to hand bronze age relic back to Wales
- INVALUABLE: details of the Feb issue
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
January 24, 2002
- Nok Statue for Sale in Amsterdam
(ARTCONCERN not concerned about NOK statues?)
- Fire-damaged manuscripts
- Britain May 'Own' Elgin Marbles but Greece Wants Loan
- Inquiry resolves questions over art looted during Nazi occupation
January 23, 2002
- Stolen Chagall may have landed in Kansas
- Tribes, Boulder deal on artifacts
- academic journal seeks author to write on museum security
- Russia to return medieval stained-glass windows to Germany
January 22, 2002
- Restoration of 'Nanjing City Wall' Is 'Bean-paste' Project
- Rector urges return of loot
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
January 21, 2002
- Excavation of Ancient Chinese Empress' Tomb in Dispute' (Cultural Heritagewatch)
- More meteorites stolen
- Find of a lifetime turns into landmark court case
- China Races to Save History
- Hometown Still Supports Historian
- Italy battles back tomb raiders
January 19, 2002
- EU project to preserve underwater treasures
- Museum paid painter who never visited facility a salary
- From Auction Houses, a Bid for Survival
- Louvre report reveals the fine art of slacking
- Shame of Cyprus's looted churches (Some churches in the north are now just empty shells)
- Continued dance with tomb robbers
- Les oeuvres volatilisées des musées
(French financial Government organization criticizes Louvre management, and shows worries about this museum's security and safety)
- Insuring your Picasso
- Nations squabble over antiquities
- former museum director was convicted Friday of stealing a valuable Civil War uniform
- Looted Obelisk Casts a Long Shadow as Ethiopia Awaits Its Return
- Liberty Bell man pleads guilty
January 18, 2002
- RE: Rare masterpieces lost in fire at collector's home (David Shillingford, Art Loss register)
- PESHAWAR: Blasts pose threat to Takht-i-Bahi monastery
- Greece wants Elgin marbles back for 2004 Olympics
- New Demands for Elgin Marbles Worry Guardians of Other Works
- Authorities in Uzbekistan find stolen paintings
January 17, 2002
- Museum mistrusts Greeks seeking loans
- Scholars Denounce Smithsonian Changes
- Ancient Afghan City Looted Anew
- The Art Newspaper; This week's top stories
January 15, 2002
- Bangladesh's cultural heritage in danger; Diplomats play a nasty role
- Enigma case man released after three months jail
- luggage inspection (adalberto biasiotti)
- New campaign to send Elgin Marbles home
- Rare masterpieces lost in fire at collector's home
- Scotland Returns Stolen Artifacts to Ethiopia
- Art That's Alluring--to Thieves
- Metal detector man can keep money from Viking ring
- Trial Begins for Ex-Museum Director
- Elgin marbles 'will never leave London'
- Saudi Arabia Defends Razing of Fort
January 14, 2002
- Re: bag searches (Steve Keller)
- thefts of ancient and precious books in ancient USSR
- Answer to query about new German law enacted Nov. 2001 re: statute of limitations
- HUNDREDS OF MISSING OBJECTS: LOOTING IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA
January 14, 2002
- Painting Returned to Russia
- Vanishing art (interactive art, postmodernism or plain theft and vandalism?)
- Fire damaged paintings
- Regarding bags and knapsacks (Gary Yee)
- Elgin Marbles 'should be shared' with Greece
(V&A director suggests way out of 200-year row over ownership of Parthenon frieze)
January 12, 2002
- Security concerns and storage lockers (thread from Museum-L)
- January issue of Invaluable & Trace magazine
- Beijing Strengthens Relics Protection
- Intramural Discord at Dublin Museum
- JEWISH MUSEUM IN HOLOCAUST-‘ART' FLAP
January 11, 2002
- Ancient fort razed by Saudis (Turkey lodging a protest with Unesco)
- European archaeology project seeks to safeguard shipwrecks
- Dossier on the Spoliation of Jewish Properties has been published online by ICOM
- Unesco Urged to Help in Return of Axum Obelisk
January 8, 2002
- Free museums see numbers double
- Sotheby's may face its own sale of the century
- Galleries urged to return Dürers looted by Nazis
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
January 6, 2002
- BBC hunts for missing art
- Catholics Slam Napa Art Exhibit
- British protect Leonardo from Italian restorers
- Greece embarks on hunt for lost Bactrian treasure
- Afghanistan's forgotten heritage
January 4, 2002
- query: new German law enacted Nov. 2001 re: statute of limitations
- Archaeologists to survey condition of Afghanistan antiquities
- RE: Permanent Observatory - Nations in Crisis
- More dances with tomb robbers
January 4, 2002
- How Taliban Art Police Got Wrong Impression
- Israel Museum takes optimistic view of tourism decline
- Looting may make artifacts history
- Prehistoric Indian Carving Imperiled by Housing Project
- Remains of 'last' Tasmanian aboriginal discovered in British Museum
- India finds 'crown jewel' in police stolen property
January 3, 2002
- Legal wrangle threatened Tutankhamen exhibition
- Enron's Collapse Affects Houston Art Scene (One of the areas most affected by the collapse is Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.)
- Philly Fire Blamed on Wiring
- Egyptian antiquities law enforced by American courts
- TOP MUSEUMS FACE CLAIMS FOR DÜRERS