Archive for January, 2011
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
With regard to my last post, I am hearing unconfirmed reports from Polish colleagues this evening that suggest there has already been some archaeological looting in the Luxor region, so far I've only got this at second hand, but tomorrow hope to contact the Polish Mission and will try to find ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
I raised a few questions related to what could have been done to better protect the Egyptian Museum in comments on Larry Rothfield's blog, The Punching Bag. He has promptly responded with the following:
So, what alternative steps could have been taken? Here are a few, for starters:
a) the tourism police, who apparently were the forces ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Ton Cremers, museumbeveiliging / Museum Security Network » Blog Archive » Cultural Heritage Lawyer, Rick St. Hilaire: Archaeoligcal Looting Crisis in Egypt.
Sarah H. Parcak, Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reports a crisis brewing at major archaeological sites in Egypt. The United ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Amarna Princess to keep an April date at Bolton Museum (From The Bolton News).
A DATE has been set for the return to Bolton of the infamous fake statue that fooled the art world.
The Amarna Princess will go on display at Bolton Museum on April 15 as part of an extensive and successful ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Wieder einmal fordert Ägypten vehement die Rückgabe der Büste der Nofretete, die im Neuen Museum in Berlin ausgestellt ist. Das Ansinnen wurde prompt abgeschmettert. Schließlich sei ja kein Kunstraub begangen worden. Dabei gibt es Grauzonen, doch manche Räubereien sind eindeutig dreist.
Zum Beispiel: Napoleon Bonaparte wollte Paris zu dem gestalten, was einst das antike Rom war: Eine Ansammlung der ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Roma, recuperate 18 delle 25 statue di Nena rubate in museo - Cronaca - Virgilio Notizie.
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Recuperate a Roma dagli agenti della squadra mobile 18 delle 25 statue dello scultore Alfiero Nena rubate dal museo Fidia in via del Frantoio lo ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Ton Cremers, museumbeveiliging / Museum Security Network » Blog Archive » Museo de Agustín Lara se enfrenta a robos e inundaciones.
Debido a las fuertes lluvias acontecidas durante el temporal pasado el patrimonio del museo sufrió daños pero lo más lamentable es el robo de distintas piezas propiedad del museo.
TLACOTALPAN, MÉXICO (28/ENE/2011).- El museo dedicado ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday.
But the group of about nine people did not manage to steal anything from the museum's collection, according to Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The would-be thieves, who broke ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Mona Ethaway, an Egyptian journalist and blogger, has asserted that the damage reported to mummies and artifacts at the Egyptian Museum was the work of "the police and thugs of Hosni Mubarak." See
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/latest-updates-on-protests-in-egypt-2/?scp=1&sq=Egypt%20museum&st=cse
This is not as strange as it sounds. Other reports have it that Government security forces have been ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Reports are coming in that attempts are being made to protect monuments all over Egypt in case antiquity looting breaks out. Many news media are mentioning that access to the pyramids is being prevented. I suspect this is not so much to protect the pyramids (and associated mastaba cemetery) as ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
CAIRO Jan 29 (Reuters) - Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late on Friday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt's top archaeologist told state television.
The museum in central Cairo, which has the world's biggest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, is adjacent to the headquarters of the ruling National ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage via Al-Jazeera.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
CAÏRO - Plunderaars hebben gisteren twee mummies van enkele duizenden jaren oud vernield in het Egyptisch Museum in Caïro. Dat heeft het hoofd van de Egyptische oudheidkundige dienst, archeoloog Zahi Hawass, zaterdag gezegd tegen de Egyptische staatstelevisie.Het Egyptisch Museum heeft de grootste verzameling voorwerpen uit het Oude Egypte ter wereld. ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.- Friday, sitting at a Starbucks in Santa Cruz, Dr. Ralph Kennaugh reflected on the past couple of years.
He spoke for the first time to Central Coast News since he says millions of dollars worth of artwork was stolen from the Pebble Beach house he was renting.
Kennaugh and his ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Government agents raiding alleged Four Corners artifact looters in 2009 set off a sharp backlash among some locals and lawmakers, although prosecutors and judges have since taken criticism for going easy on the defendants.It turns out most Utahns say the government was right to crack down.A new statewide Salt Lake ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Cairo: The Egyptian army secured Cairo's famed antiquities museum on Saturday, protecting thousands of priceless artifacts, including the gold mask of King Tutankhamun, from looters.
The greatest threat to the Egyptian Museum, which draws millions of tourists a year, first appeared to come from the fire engulfing the ruling party headquarters ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Breaking: Is the Egyptian Museum Under Threat?.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The latest argument for detaining Nefertiti is clear evidence that the holders of the cultural property of others have no valid reason for depriving them of their cultural symbols.
It is established that there is no requirement in Municipal or International law that owners of stolen/looted objects or objects acquired ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
Cancellation follows accusations that the object was looted, although no formal claim has been made
more via Benin mask withdrawn from auction | The Art Newspaper.
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Jan. 25, 2011 -- Talk about revisionist history. Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, Va., has confessed to altering the date on a pardon issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which is currently part of the permanent records collection of the U.S. National Archives.
Patrick Murphy, a soldier in the Union Army who was court-martialed for desertion, was pardoned ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
A San Francisco man who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of artworks from local galleries and stashed them inside his Tenderloin residential hotel room was sentenced to probation Wednesday.
Terry Helbing was arrested on June 1, 2010, after allegedly swiping 40 paintings and prints estimated at $15,000 from the San Francisco Botanical Garden's ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
TWO white men have been arrested for damaging and stealing the bronze statue of struggle activist Nokuthula Simelane who died at the hands of apartheid security forces in the 1980s
I am very sad and angry. I cannot find peace and closure. I appeal to those responsible for her disappearance to give me her remains - ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Stolen from an airport more than 22 years ago, a rare First World War painting by a major Canadian Impressionist has resurfaced in Toronto, and detectives are trying to figure out where it has been.
In the spring of 1988, an art dealer in Calgary shipped Château Liévin, a roughly 14-by-17-centimetre oil by James Wilson ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan.27), it is timely to report that a small act of justice – 61 years delayed – was carried out this month: A valuable Nazi-looted painting was returned to the grandson of its Jewish owners. Associated Press reports that Rutgers University, after ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Penacho de Moctezuma, the Quetzal-feather crown of Montezuma, the last Aztec Emperor, in the Völkerkundemuseum, Vienna. Austria.
According to information in the Austrian papers Standard, Kurier, and Kronen Zeitung, Austria seems finally willing to return the Montezuma Crown which Mexico has been claiming for decades without ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
(JTA) -- A Swiss government report has concluded that the country\'s museums should more intensively investigate whether they hold artwork looted during the Nazi era.The report, published this week by the Federal Culture Office, summarizes the results of a survey of 551 Swiss museums on the state of their provenance ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
SWANSEA, Wales, Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the extension of the memorandum of understanding between the US and Italy.
In 2001 the US and the Republic of Italy made a bilateral agreement that imposed import restrictions on archaeological material derived from Italy. The agreement was renewed ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Former Museum Director Facing New Charges - WAAYTV.com- Huntsville, Alabama Television - News Weather Sports.
Decatur, AL - New charges have been filed against Laura Harris Phillips, the former director of the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur.
In December, Phillips was accused of theft, after more than $50,000 worth of funds from ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Art crime seminar to focus on recovery, security, protection.
PHILADELPHIA – For the first time ever Robert Wittman Inc. is offering a five-day seminar to the public that will focus on the practical application of investigative techniques to recover stolen art and cultural property. The seminar will be held June 12-17 ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Germany says it will not return an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt with the head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, insisting the bust was acquired legally by the Prussian state nearly a century ago.
The 3,300-year-old bust of Pharaoh Akhenaton's wife was discovered in 1913 by German ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
GREENBURGH, N.Y.:The town of Greenburgh Police Department is investigating the theft on December 16 of a pair of antique French chandeliers from an antiques restoration shop.According to the police report, both chandeliers had been sent to the store for repair on November 30. The store owner told investigators that he ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
One of three statues stolen Saturday, Jan. 22, from Canada Billiards in Laval. The statues, one bronze, one silver and one gold, are estimated to be worth a total of about $10,000. The thief or thieves stole nothing else from the business and Laval police had no suspects as of Tuesday at midday. ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Luciano Scala, a representative of the Italian ministry of cultural heritage, and the Festari heirs shake hands after an auction to sell the Vasari archive was called off in March
One of the art world’s most gripping and convoluted sagas, involving the Italian government, a mysterious Russian businessman and a Renaissance ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Peine (ots) - Wie bereits berichtet, wurde am 02.12.2010, zwischen 15:30 und 17:15 Uhr, aus dem Kreismuseum Peine das Gemälde "Innere Kraft" entwendet.
Eine Mitarbeiterin hatte gesehen, wie ein Pärchen ein Bild aus der Ausstellung heraus trug. Sie ging davon aus, dass das Bild rechtmäßig erworben wurde. Wie sich später herausstellte, war ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
formatted text plus images via Il Tempo - Roma - Marmi e dipinti rubati Blitz all\'asta a Londra.
SHANGHAI Boom di vendite in Cina per le repliche dell'anello di fidanzamento regalato a Londra dal principe William alla promessa sposa Kate Middleton.
Sculture in marmo e quadri d'epoca. Un bottino da 500 mila euro. Sono gli ultimi recuperi d'autore firmati ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Carabinieri: restituiti alla Cattedrale di Chiusi due dipinti di Fungai - - Libero-News.it.
Roma, 24 gen. (Adnkronos) - Tornano nella cattedrale di Chiusi i due dipinti a tempera su tavola rubati nel 1994 e recuperati dai carabinieri per la tutela del patrimonio culturale. ''Sara' una grande emozione vedere ricomporsi la Nativita' - ...
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