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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!

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25 years of museum fires, 10 years of museum theft
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June 18, 2003
- Egypt: SCA gears up to face antiquity theft
- L.A. judge sends Picasso painting case to Cook County
- Looted Dutch art sold
- Peru: Trafficking religious art
- USA: In Dalí Theft at Rikers Island, the 4 Suspects Aren't Inmates
- Swiss arts world split over proposed illegal goods law
- USA: Reward offered for stolen artifacts
- ‘Iranian national real culprit’
IRAQ
- Iraqi artefacts find easy route via Switzerland
- Reach of Iraq's cultural theft crisis extends far beyond Baghdad Museum
June 17, 2003
- The Art Newspaper: This week's top stories
- Anger mounts after second sculpture theft
- Difficult to deter vandalism to public art
- Self-styled art vigilantes threaten to destroy public sculptures they detest
- Russian President Calls for Protection of Nation's Cultural Treasures
IRAQ
- Staff revolt at Baghdad museum
June 16, 2003
- New Hampshire museum offers a $1 million reward for a missing Liberty nickel
- USA: Attempt to recoup $100,000 from art fraudster fails
- Israel: Tablet Is A Fake
- Parthenon Marbles: Sharp end of civilisation
June 12- 14, 2003
- Thieves with a fine taste for art
- Swiss Senate approves art law
- Norway: Bold thieves steal national treasure
- Another issue of IFAR Journal is out
- India: Antique smuggling racket unearthed
- Illegally Imported Mayan Artifacts Being Returned to Guatemala
IRAQ
- Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk
- From Tragedy to Farce; Anti-American journalists and the museum looting that wasn't.
- Iraqis Return Priceless Vase to Baghdad Museum
- Worst Looting May Be In Remote Parts of Iraq
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- Canada: Stradivarius recovered before reported stolen
- Germany: Stolen Warhol found
- USA: Jail guards indicted
- Germany: Cloister Auction in Baden-Baden
- Japan: Ancient earthenware bowl stolen from museum
IRAQ
- BBC and Guardian cover up US role in Iraq looting
- We're Still Missing The Looting Picture
June 1 - 11, 2003
- Hawaii: Artifacts Suspended in Cultural Tension
- UK and Australia: Aborigines clash with scientists over bones
- Afghanistan bids to buy back its looted heritage
- Argentina: More on Auguste Rodin Sculpture theft
IRAQ
- Archaeological treasures locked away
IRAQ end
- Korea: Suspect in Museum Heist Returns Treasures
- Yale Law School rare book explosion damage
- Kenyan artefacts abroad to be returned, says Balala
- USA: Rikers' Dali Painting Still Missing
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
IRAQ
- Ancient Assyrian Treasures Believed Found in Baghdad
- Looting and Conquest
- comment on: Looting and Conquest
- NY Museum Displays Ancient Mesopotamian Art
- Iraq 'virtual heritage' archive planned
IRAQ end
- Egypt wants Berlin museum to return bust of Queen Nefertiti 'unethically' fused to bronze statue of nude woman
- Students suspected in Piccolo Spoleto art theft
- Former library worker jailed in connection with Yale bombing
IRAQ
- Drive to recover Iraq treasures
- Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth
- Only 33 Iraqi artifacts missing
- Iraq Museum to Reopen Displaying Lost Treasure
IRAQ end
- Musical Instrument Info (Jonathan sazonoff)
- Looters dig into Afghanistan's ancient heritage
- UK: Raiders take two minutes to steal Rothschild gold worth millions
- U.S. to Keep Hitler's Art
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
IRAQ
- Iraqi Museum Looting Was Fan Dance In Sand Pants (Rush Limbaugh)
May 30, 2003
- Rodin Sculpture Stolen from Buenos Aires Museum
May 28 - 29, 2003
- USA: Accused ringleader in Naples art theft pleads innocent
- China Uncovers Looted Buddhas
- India: Antiques Act
- USA: Police recover more stolen Civil War items (Transient tried to sell photos)
- USA: Detectives recover Picasso etching stolen from ship a year ago
- Reclaiming the Ancient Manuscripts of Timbuktu
- USA: Police seek vandals who struck at museum
- Greece and Canada: Elgin Marbles trip up PM in Greece
IRAQ
- On Iraqi highways, artifacts for sale
- Mesopotamia's vanishing treasures
- 'Thousands' of items looted insists Iraqi antiquities chief
- Global Network Aids Theft of Iraqi Artifacts
May 26, 2003
- Korea: Police round up museum burglar
- Japan: Most sites of disgraced archaeologist discredited
- Two accused of stealing bear from Naperville's art project
- Difficulties arise when art has been pilfered by Nazis
- Parthenon Marbles: Artist says British Museum does not know left from right
- Beware of the garden crooks
- Cree want 'spiritual' meteorite returned
- AFGHANISTAN: Trade in anitquities is big business
- Looted Nok Terracotta in Bonham's sale
IRAQ
- UN SECURITY COUNCIL PROHIBITS ALL TRADE IN IRAQI CULTURAL PROPERTY ILLEGALLY REMOVED SINCE 1990
May 25, 2003
- Top auction houses sell looted art, claims UK Culture minister Kim Howells
- Sample Y10,000 notes stolen from Printing Bureau museum
IRAQ
- Iraqi Looters Tearing Up Archaeological Sites
May 24, 2003
- Judaica Theft in Tel Aviv
- IRAQ: questions about number of items looted (Tom Flynn)
- Hong Kong Probes Christie's Auction of Chinese Antiquities
- Jagmohan seeks restitution of British Museum Saraswati idol
- Theft of Afghan artifacts persists
- Architectural salvage dealers fear a new law could put them out of business - and make it a crime to sell your old fireplace - Museum display theft
- Tackling the looters
- Media blamed for exaggerating loss of antiquities
- Theft case threatens the art of handshake; dealer is said to take money and a Picasso
- World War II Allied Intelligence report on German art dealer on the web
- Arnold can't pull weight without Anna Nicole
- Painting returned to local gallery
- Nazis, stolen treasure & mystery deaths
May 21, 2003
- Parthenon: Museum project ‘to go ahead’
- Thieves net rare abalone scrimshaw collection; unique carvings stolen from Pt. Lobos museum
- The book bandit (more on Peter Bellwood, with photo)
- Provenance issues and World War II Looted Art: The 7th Inter national Law Seminar "Resolution of Cultural Property Disputes"
- How stolen and damaged Van Gogh was saved
IRAQ
- UN Agency Alarmed at Iraqi Sites Plunder
- Harness world's outrage to recover Iraq's stolen past
- UNESCO affirms loss of 1,000 archeological pieces from Baghdad museum
May 20, 2003
- Suspected art thief back in police custody after eluding authorities for three months
- FBI called in on missing artifacts case
May 19, 2003
- Police track stolen artworks to truck driver
- On the trail of tainted art; A historian is in increasing demand to establish the ownership of valuable works stolen during the Holocaust.
- Greek high court rules against new Acropolis museum
May 19, 2003
- The world in his hands: Britain's most wanted art thief who steals maps to order.
'Ripper' who snatches rare prints from top libraries across Europe on the run
May 18, 2003
- Panama recovers stolen artifacts
- Egypt unveils antiquities returned from North America
- $2M in heirlooms, jewels stolen in apartment heist
- Protection of culture in Palestine
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
(AUSTRIA FIGHTS RULING THAT IT CAN BE SUED FOR NAZI-LOOTED ART)
IRAQ
- Iraqis refuse to return antiquities
- US adjusts museum loss figures
May 16, 2003
- Library's Art Theft Has Others Taking Notice Of Unprotected Art
- Korea: National treasure stolen from museum
- First Case of Theft at National Museum
- Former Sotheby's chairman released from prison
- Zimbabwe: Looted Heritage Back
IRAQ
- Kim Howells Backs Private Bill To Outlaw Trade In Stolen Works Of Art
- Customs stymies statue smugglers
- U.S. Recovers 951 Iraq Museum Items
- Experts revise scope of theft from museum; Iraqi curators hid some antiquities
May 13, 2003
- Stolen Israeli historical documents on sale in US
- help for Iraq's cultural heritage
May 12, 2003
- He Shuzhong, the founder and director of CHW, is selected as the 2004 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America's Outstanding Public Service Award
- Library official accused of stealing painting
- Covert Policy in Targeting Palestinian Antiquities
- Upcoming IFAR Programs on Holocaust Art Restitution and on Camille Pissarro
- Former State Curator Found Guilty in Artifact Theft
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
IRAQ
- Art world gives tomb raiders the cold shoulder
- Museum staff used secret hiding places to safeguard artefacts
- Lost artifacts returning to their rightful owners; 9th century B.C. statue, chest of valuable manuscripts among items recovered, Customs says
- Italy battles to rescue Iraqi antiquities
- Colonel in Search for Iraqi Antiquities
May 11, 2003
- 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' stolen
- In Kuwait, Lost Items and a Blackened Museum Are Effects of Earlier War
May 10, 2003
- Action News Uncovers Art Heist
IRAQ
- Rumsfeld says criticism over Iraq museum looting a "bum rap"
May 9, 2003
- Greeks recover ancient artefacts
- Police recover stolen Hodgkins painting
- Federal authorities file rare looting case
- Government Returns Stolen Tablet to Egypt
- In a bind over Bill of Rights (Man who tried to sell copy may face charges)
- additions Lootedart.com website
IRAQ
- Looters go to source to steal Iraq artifacts
- Recovery of looted Iraqi treasures is slow
May 9, 2003
- Query and answers about disaster preparedness plans
May 8, 2003
- Art smuggler reveals trade secrets (about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry)
- Santa Fe gallery hands over rare Peruvian altarpiece
- Treasures should remain where they belong
IRAQ
- Nimrud Gold treasures “safe” (Dr Donny George - Bagdad Museum- gives the first detailed assessment of the looting to The Art Newspaper)
- US customs agents claim some success in Iraq search
May 7, 2003
- Manhatten Art broker arrested for Picasso theft, and Monet fraud
IRAQ
- Germany: Police On The Watch For Looted Iraqi Antiquities
- Iraqi Looting was Disaster for National Heritage, say Western Museum Experts
May 6, 2003
IRAQ
- Iraq Cultural Heritage Announcement (email sent to all Smithsonian employees on 4/23/03)
- Next mission? Operation Iraqi Heritage
- Marines accuse Baghdad museum of hampering hunt for treasures
Interpol international conference on stolen Iraqi art; speeches by:
- Mr Mounir Bouchenaki,Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO
- Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General of the ICPO-Interpol
- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
May 6, 2003
- Modest Electronic Proposal (David Liston)
- Remains of some Aborigines returned from museum
- Peru: Agents Hunt for Stolen Altarpiece
- Emory Museum returning mummy to Egypt
IRAQ:
- Ambassador Limbert: Iraq Update Announcement
- U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi Antiquities
- UNESCO Contacts US On Visit To Iraq To Help Recover Looted Antiquities
- Looting of Baghdad's House of Wisdom stokes anger of Iraqis
- Antiquities experts post online treasures of Baghdad museum
- Interpol media release: U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to attend Interpol international conference on stolen Iraqi art
- Most antiquities feared lost in looting found intact in museum (U.S. says only 38--not 170,000--missing)
- Museums unite to tackle 'crime of the century'
- Iraqi museum assembles list of lost treasures (LOOTING PROBE LAGS AMID SUSPICIONS THAT LEADERS WERE LINKED TO SADDAM)
May 2, 2003
- Re: [CPProt.net] selected reports CPProt.net May 2, 2003 (Duncan Kinder)
IRAQ
- Re; looting of the National Museum of Iraq (Tim Szczepanski, CIPM)
- Little has been found of plunder from '91
- Global Hunt Is Launched For Iraq's Looted Heritage (Treasure Trove of Antiquities May Prove Difficult to Recover)
- Jordan confiscates stolen Iraqi art
- A shameful theft of the crown jewels of memory
- Missing artifacts trickle back to Baghdad museum (Fewer taken than thought, and some are close at hand)
- Iraq and ruin
May 1, 2003
- Elton John loses fake statues case
- Thief Steals Velvet Elvis Painting; Takes It On Tour
IRAQ:
- Loss Estimates Are Cut on Iraqi Artifacts, but Questions Remain
- US Experts Call on International Community to Find Iraq's Historic Treasures
- Of 2,000 Treasures Stolen in Gulf War of 1991, Only 12 Have Been Recovered
- U.N. cultural organization urges Security Council to ban import of looted Iraqi artifacts
- Iraqi National Museum anticipates opening of some exhibits
April 30, 2003
- Historic Ł100,000 paintings stolen
- Aboriginal rock art vandalized
IRAQ
- Assessing the disaster: experts mourn the Lion of Nimrud, looted as troops stood by
- Lost history Iraq's missing treasures
- Iraqi looting 'a loss to mankind'
- The root causes of pillage
- Man free without bond in smuggling of Iraqi art
- U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi Antiquities
April 29, 2003
- 'Inside job' theory of art theft
- Truth is stranger than art fiction
- Florence Library Fights to Save Precious Books
- Museum regains swiped statue
- Asbestos forces Rijksmuseum's closure (additional information)
- Security tight at new Christchurch Art Gallery as priceless work go on show
IRAQ:
- Looted Iraqi Art Displayed Online
- Experts urge U.S. to seal Iraq's borders to save antiquities
- UNESCO to send experts to Iraq to compile data on looted antiquities
The Department of State is in the process of putting up a fully searchable
on-line archive of the looted items with the help of the University of
Chicago and other experts in the field.
http://exchanges.state.gov/culprop/iraq.html

- THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND UNESCO ORGANIZE THE RESCUE OF IRAQ'S CULTURAL HERITAGE
April 29, 2003
- Asbestos shuts Rijksmuseum
- Tear in stolen Van Gogh 'can be repaired'
- ‘Takeaway Rembrandt’ is most stolen painting
IRAQ:
- ICOM: An emergency Red List on Iraqi Antiquities at Risk
- More Than 100 Looted Iraqi Artifacts Returned, Military Says
- Iraqis keep looted property safe from exploiters
- Some antiquities, manuscripts turn up
- UNESCO to co-chair new experts meeting to retrieve looted Iraqi antiquities
April 28, 2003
- Stolen art found near toilet
- Photo of stolen Van Gogh painting
- Stolen art sheds priceless light on painters' careers
- Thieves grab Ł1m paintings from gallery
- Van Gogh taken in multi-million art raid
- Civil War artifacts are stolen
- Art buyers urged to be aware as internet auction fraud soars
- Tracing Iraq's Lost Treasures
April 27, 2003
- UK database to track stolen art treasures (World's second largest criminal industry targeted)
- A biblical bazaar (Treasures, trinkets, and fakes mingle in Israel's controversial antiquities market)
- Collector returns missing butterfly to museum
- Better protection for artefacts
- Karzai calls for return of looted artefacts
- Ukrainian monks seize part of 1,000-year old monastery in latest dispute over Soviet-seized property
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
IRAQ:
- Iraqis and their antiquities
- Barbarians at the gates
- Legal plan to save Iraq treasures
- And Now: 'Operation Iraqi Looting'
- Iraq's 'most wanted' stolen relics (Search for priceless antiquities goes high-tech)
- Looting of Baghdad treasures shines light on a 'dirty business'
- Treasure trove of suspects in museum artifacts' theft
- Chalabi's men hand 'rescued' artefacts back to museum
April 22, 2003
- US find may be looted Iraqi art
- FBI: Looted Iraqi Antiquities Surfacing
- Iraq's stolen heritage
- Jordanian customs seize looted Iraqi paintings
- NYTimes.com Article: An Army for Art, by Connie Lowenthal and Stephen Urice
( plus 'To Editor' mails)
April 21, 2003
- Italy: Art bounty to dig up national treasure
- Stealing history
- Dominican Painter Helps to Unearth True Fakes
- Russia: Paying for Victory?
- In north Iraq, an ancient past falls victim to a modern war (Hundreds of key artifacts looted from Mosul Museum)
- Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents Set Ablaze in Final Chapter
- Permitting museum looting reveals intentions of U.S.
- Iraq's Dead Teacup
- Iraq looting has cultural impact
- Egypt museum displays Iraq items
April 19, 2003
- Security company in museum market
- Greece: Ancient treasure seized in Drama
- New Zealand: Dealer duped by tale of 'Gauguin' painting
- New Zealand: Fake art man ordered to pay $100,000
- USA: Painting stolen from courthouse

IRAQ:
- U.S. on Lookout for Stolen Iraq Artifacts
- UNESCO Expert meeting on Iraqi Cutural Heritage - Resolutions - Message from the ICOM Secretariat
- The looting of Baghdad’s museum and library (US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures)
- Interpol hunts stolen Iraqi art
- Looters return objects to museum
- U.S. archaeologists hope to document missing Iraqi treasures
- US shamed by looting of antiquities
- Plunder in the cradle of civilisation
- FBI sends agents to recover looted treasures of Baghdad
- Iraqi museum thefts planned by outside experts (Looting crowds hid thieves who removed treasures)
April 18, 2003, part II
- Ajax trophy stolen
- Nazi-Stolen Art Returned to Owner's Heirs
- Dutch Lawyer offers to get stolen art back
- Turks seek ban on tile sale
- Looters May Have Destroyed Priceless Cuneiform Archive
April 18, 2003
- NEDART FOUNDATION IN THE NETHERLANDS WARNS AGAINST MISUSE OF THE ART MARKET BY LOOTERS OF NATIONAL MUSEUM IN BAGDAD
- Press Release: Statement from the DCMS regarding Iraq's Cultural Heritage
- FBI To Help Track Down Stolen Iraqi Antiquities
- Japan to cooperate in preservation of Iraqi antiquities
- Antiquities fall into black hole
- Iraq's illegal art trade broken
- Art gangs 'looted Iraqi museums'
- Experts to Send Team to Iraq in Wake of Museum Looting
- UNESCO Proposes 'Heritage Police' to Guard Iraqi Museums
April 15 - 17, 2003
- Rumsfeld Denies U.S. Blame for Iraq Museum Plunder
- U.N. experts to assess damage to Iraqi relics
- Shock at Marilyn jewellery theft
- Professor: Looted art ‘treasures for us all’
- No stone unturned in hunt for looted treasures
- UNESCO, British Museum move to salvage Iraqi treasure trove
- New Development Gateway initiative- Iraq: Relief and Recovery
- Destruction of libraries panel proposal for NYC conference
- Russian treasure hunters destroy 'Greek outpost'
- U.S.: Will Restore Looted Iraq Artifacts
- Editorial: Trashing the past
- Powell Warns Against Dealing in Looted Iraqi Antiquities
- Iraq: Harvard University Professor Riedlmayer's Comments
- Curators Appeal for a Ban on Purchase of Iraqi Artifacts
- War is good, said Bush as the Louvre fell to looters
- Looters ransack Iraq's national library
- Unesco to ready checklist of looted treasure
- Missing Iraqi antiquities hidden for years
- Baghdad’s treasures may turn up on eBay
- Korean cultural treasures abroad - The 5th World Archaeological Congress
- News Digests and Information about Iraq
- Web site on pillaging in Iraq
- Internet aids hunt for missing vessels
- BOOK 'EM: L.I. THIEVES GRAB TOMES WORTH 500G
- ICOM-CC appalled by looting in Iraq - AND - ICOM-CC offers conservation expertise
- Looting of Iraqi antiquities throws spotlight on illicit art trade
- Hunt for the raiders of the lost art
- On the trail of stolen treasures; Outlook bleak for return of Iraqi art
- Museum looting likely well-executed theft, officials say
- Museum Pillage Described as Devastating but Not Total
- Why are we allowing the rape of Iraq?
April 13, 2003
- Iraq’s ancient cultural heritage has been ransacked – blame Bush and Blair
- Police looking for leads to solve theft from Pittsburg State art exhibit
- Egypt: Internet site for stolen antiquities launched
- History is being washed away at Taipei site
- Gallagher arrested in relation to alleged art theft
- Iraq: Art Experts Fear Worst in the Plunder of a Museum
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
April 11 - 12, 2003
- Up to Ł7m likely for Schiele masterpiece looted by Nazis
- US lobby could threaten Iraqi heritage
- Elgin Marbles: Centerpiece of new museum?
- Baghdad archeological museum looted
- Looters grab priceless objects from Iraqi museums
- Iraq - Threats to Cultural Heritage: Guardian article,10th April and THES 11th April 2003
(reports forwarded by Patrick Boylan)
- Mosul descends into chaos as even museum is looted
- Bring indigenous remains home
- Return of ancestral remains from London heralds many more returns
April 9, 2003
- Are the Internet and GPS Technology Archaeology's Worst Enemies?
- Stink Bomb Protest at Art Auction
- INTERNATIONAL CODE OF ETHICS FOR DEALERS IN CULTURAL PROPERTY at UNESCO site updated
- The costly destruction of rich history, culture
- Laundering Drug Money With Art
- Burrell Collection painting ruled part of Nazis' stolen art treasures
- Police seek missing statue of icon
- Greece Repeats Demand for Return of 'Elgin Marbles'
April 8, 2003
- Stolen Pompeii frescoes found
April 7, 2003
- Vandal Cuts String on Rodin Sculpture
- Greece makes its case for Elgin Marbles at New York exhibit
- Met publishes first 'Most Wanted' list of fugitives
- US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques
- Library historian cracks a theft case
- PM's plans for war memorial shock historians
- Art sales: theft ; Will Bennett on what happens when owners are held to ransom
April 4, 2003
- Archaeological treasures could become casualties;
Much of early civilization's history yet undocumented
- Ancient Greek tomes donated to library
(Tattle-taping is the process of placing anti-theft devices into the book)
- Spanish Police Recover Stolen Dali Painting
- Hacking through the politics of Angkor
- UNA Museum terminates geology activity
April 3, 2003
- Museums bear the burden
In an age of terror and war, soaring shipping and insurance costs force cutbacks in art shows
- Crazy Horse statue returns to South Dakota museum
- Historic docket returned to Erie County
- UNESCO Fears Iraqi Heritage Razed By Strikes
April 2, 2003
- Iraqi cultural heritage sites threathened by war

- Disputed German Art Opens in Moscow
- Iraqis hiding behind 'ancient ruins'
- Call to protect Iraqi heritage;
The British Museum is leading calls to stop sites of archaeological interest being destroyed during the conflict in Iraq
- 'Foreign cartels target South African museums
- Archaeological Shields; Saddam holds Iraq's antiquities hostage
March 29, 2003
- Web site on risk to cultural heritage in Iraq
- U.S. Urged to Shield Iraqi Treasures from Bombs
- Antiquities experts guarding treasures
- WAR & HERITAGE: IS ANCIENT IRAQ BEING PROTECTED?
- After four decades of struggle, heirs of Czech collector win back some art
- Hunt on for Tsars' Amber Room
- Iraq: Groups Take Steps To Spare Cultural Heritage
- Ring facing May trial for theft
- Thief goes hungry for art's sake
- Moscow urges UNESCO to set up body to protect historical monuments during conflicts
- Shvydkoi Could Face Charges Over German Art Exchange
March 28, 2003
- THE PRAVDA REPORT DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN OF THE MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK MAILINGLIST
March 26, 27,28, 2003
- THREAD CONCERNING DISSEMINATION OF PRAVDA REPORT ABOUT WAR IN IRAQ AND IT'S IMPACT ON CULTURAL PROPERTY
March 26, 2003
- review: Framed: Tales of the Art Underworld (The Most Elegant Thieves of All)
- Precision weaponry destroys Museum in Baghdad (Pravda, Ru)
- Exploring or Illicit Excavation: Ancient Sites in Desert Deeps Are Looted Unbridledly
- UN agency offers to help Greece, UK in dispute over Parthenon Marbles
- CBI seizes Raja Ravi Verma paintings worth one crore
- Feds Eye Charges in Bill of Rights Theft
March 24, 2003
- Theft of Icons Ghent, Belgium March 19/20, 2003
- Tefaf Art Dealer victim of theft in hotel
- Art Gallery Owner Accused of Tax Evasion
- Museum exhibits stolen as they arrived
- Raiders of the lost art (Why would anybody steal a stuffed gorilla from the Australian Museum?)
- Feds mull charges in Bill of Rights case
- Two arrested in theft of statue fragments
- Archaeological-Protection Case Settled
- Loulan mausoleum remains lost
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
March 18 - 20, 2003
- Last day at Interpol General Secretariat (JOUANNY Jean-Pierre)
- Press release about large Holocaust-related claim in decorative art
- Apologies from Artknows and Museum Security Network mailinglist editors
- Re: query: Helping protect Iraq's museums? (Cheryl Maslin)
- Lebanon: Returned artifact marks first step in recovery process
- Babylonian Booty and EBAY'S THREAT TO IRAQ
- Paris: Artworks Stolen From Home of Princess Haifa
- Israeli Police Break Ancient Tablet
- Officials investigate theft
- Major theft from Australian Museum to be investigated
- Sting nets return of N.C.'s copy of Bill of Rights
- Face of Ancient Statue Recovered
- Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan - Blue Shield
- 'Lost City' Yielding Its Secrets (Machu Picchu)
- Marbles are back in play
- Collector's attorney blasts Antiquities Authority
- Archeologists: Don't attack cultural treasures in Iraq
- Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq
March 14, 2003
- Fraudulent painting sellers discharged
- Accusations of Theft Envelop Warhol Work
- Two Auction Houses Settle Antitrust Suit
- Iraq shields ancient treasures from high-tech war
- 10 paintings stolen before exhibit
- Glasnost on War's Looted Art
- Stolen paintings recovered
- Asbestos risk levels museum
- Chinese Villagers Loot Ancient Tombs
- Letter from the Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO Mr. Bouchenaki
- Parthenon Marbles dispute takes a new turn at Athens conference (Tom Flynn)
- MEDIA STATEMENT FROM THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE RESTITUTION OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES.
- Speech by The Rt Hon Lord David Owen CH at an Economist Conference on "The Parthenon Marbles In view of the 2004 Olympiad"
- query: Helping protect Iraq's museums? (Nancy Russell)
- Help in locating a book 'Micro Embosser'
- Tagging goods for theft protection via wireless communication
- Russia returns war-looted art to Germany
- Case of looted Picasso may be headed to Chicago
March 11, 2003
- Thieves steal antique art treasures
- Judge Dismisses Hector Feliciano's Suit Over Payments
- Machu Picchu en La República, Lima
- People Should Brush Up on Art Insurance
- Civil War Museums War Over Horse
- Warning Signs Posted at Santa Cruz Libraries
- Library Surveillance Exclusion Sought
- Casualty count could include Iraq antiquities
- Police squad brushes up on antiques
- Trawl-nets damage sunken artefacts
March 9, 2003
- Peruvian report about illicit removal archealogical objects from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham between 1911 and 1915
March 9, 2003
- Peru asks US museum to return Incan relics
- RIKERS GUARD BARES ALL ABOUT ART OF THE STEAL
- India's Ayodhya Babri Mosque/Ram Temple Issue: The Complete Coverage (Patrick Boylan)
- Library not immune to crime
- David Holt: Convicted Book Thief
- Art Looting Inquiries (JONATHAN PETROPOULOS)
- Theft temporarily closes Earlham art gallery
- Da Vinci Among Art Displayed in SF
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
March 6, 2003
- Suspect in $7 Million Theft Jumps Bail
- Peter Max art stolen at auction in Parsippany
- Call for return of medieval brass
- Invisa's New Security Product Evaluated by Peabody Essex Museum
- UNESCO ASKED TO INVESTIGATE DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN CEMETERY IN AZERBAIJAN
- High Court orders excavations in Ayodhya
- Museum facade ruling
March 5, 2003
- Iraqi artefacts find easy route via Switzerland
- Fire Mars Egypt's New Alexandria Library
- Fire damages historic church
- Curator charges Field with bias
- Loot still missing in $100 million Belgian diamond heist
March 4, 2003
- Over 200 stolen idols handed over to [Nepal] National Museum
March 3, 2003
- National Churchwatch, the insurance-backed security adviser,
says thieves appear to be using reputable church guides as crime manuals
- Council accused of producing a 'thief's guide' to art show
- Did Money Motivate an Art Thief? Dali Would've Understood
- Many contributed to Fraktur’s return
- Panel on Nazi Art Theft Fell Short
- Stedelijk Museum of Contemporary Art falls victim to serious planning blight
February 27 - March 2, 2003
- Thieves steal Ł.5m paintings
- Kosovo: Destruction of history
- Refer recovered artifacts to Museum Dept (Malaysia)
- New Efforts to Recover Nazi Plunder
- Suspected art thief out of jail, on the lam
- Museum's plea after robbery
- Panama Police Hunt Gold Museum Thieves, Arrest Two
- Lauder's Mix of Restitution and Collecting
- ICOM Committee for Conservation and War
- Experts fear for Iraq's archaeological treasure
- Dali Sketch Stolen From Rikers Island
February 26, 2003
- Works of art stolen to order (art thief left behind part of his finger)
- TBI Asks Public Help Recovering Museum Antiques
- Notes on point by point analysis of MacGregor's (director British Museum) statement
- Stolen Dunhuang Cave relics will stay at the British Museum
- Fears of Terror a Complication for Art Exhibits
- Antique firearms dealer pleads guilty to fraud
- Art wasn't thief's cup of tea --but it was his case of beer
- SCA retrieves 3 artifacts stolen from Sakkara area
- War in Iraq Would Halt All Digs in Region
- Police arrest four for Antwerp diamond heist
- special: Dublin man admits Russborough House theft
February 19 - 23, 2003
- additions to website:
1. Bibliographies of the last three US National Conferences on Cultural Property Protection
2. An Exhibit Protection Levels for Cultural Collections in Museums and
Other Institutions which describes rough equivalencies in physical protection, fire security and conservation.
- Snow causes roof of railroad museum to partially cave in
- Brutal trade of rare books
- ABAA Announces Stolen Books Database
- Afghans repair broken heritage
- ToC for International Journal of Cultural Property
- Appeal disputes deal on Terra
- Work to preserve Afghanistan’s endangered historical treasures
- We must stem art losses, says export chief
- Decapitator of Thatcher's statue is jailed for three months
- British Museum deliberately misleading about its contacts with Athens;
Greece Should Never See Elgin Marbles - Museum Boss MacGregor
- Belgian police recover stolen works
- Author requests information on forgery of ceramics
- Police raid halts auction of Columbus ship bell
- Dali art show reopens after deluge
- Unesco and setting Iraqi cultural policy
- Broken Pipe Floods Historic Library
- Picasso painting 'unlikely to be genuine'
- Ł400m treasure trove ups sticks ... gently
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
February 18, 2003
- RE: responses to query Guard coverage per sq. ft. (Gordon Gullery)
- ANNOUNCE: ENG : New pages in ICOM Web Site
FRE: Nouvelles pages s ur le site ICOM
SPA:Nuevas paginas en el sitio ICOM
- Italian Art Chief Arms Revolution, Not Privatization
- War-ruined Kabul Museum being restored with British help
- Dresden Treasures Await Refuge
- Art looted by Nazis to go on sale
- Theft of LeRoy Neiman Painting
February 15, 2003
- Kimbell Art Museum: Last effort to receive information about provenance of Huari statue
February 15, 2003
- 425 historic buildings left unprotected
(A survey highlights the lack of safeguards for Hong Kong's heritage sites as the government is called upon to act)
- Re: responses to query Guard coverage per sq. ft. (Steve Keller)
- La directora de ARCO asegura que el robo de una cerámica de Picasso pudo ser "un despiste"
- Painting Stolen From Local Art Gallery
- Treasure hunter
(Lili Gutmann had not seen her family's works of art since 1938 when the Nazis stripped their house bare)
- The Absence of Justice
(A Pair of Flawed but Valuable Books Describe the Imperfect State of Holocaust Restitution)
- Historians find source of Drake hoax
February 14, 2003, part II
- Thyssen museum says it is legal owner of alleged Nazi-looted masterpiece
- Famed Jaffna library not reopening, soldiers guard complex
- Demo of security software can be downloaded (Steve Keller)
- Guard archivist admits to thefts
- `Would You Like To See My Etchings?' Solves Crime
(Art set for auction instead found to be stolen from New York)
- Businessmen arrested over theft of skulls and foetuses
- Picasso Work Stolen From Spanish Festival
- 'Modern-day pirate' put on probation
February 14, 2003
- QUERY GUARD COVERAGE PER SQUARE FOOT
February 12 - 14, 2003
- 19 ancient Panchaloha idols stolen from Bhatkal
- Two directors arrested on suspicion of book thievery from museum
- Italians Find St. Valentine Relic (stolen 1979)
- Former art gallery manager's grand theft retrial begins
- Three Miami men arrested in $7M December art heist
- Foreign museum tried to rent stolen items
- Ancient Silk Road Loulan tombs robbed, desecrated
- Alleged Fla. Art Thieves Called Amateurs
- Police seize art, fine horses and luxury home of suspected drug lord
- Das Rätsel um die Netzflickerin (WW.I looted art)
- query: sketching in galleries
- France starts moving art works to safer ground in case of flooding
- In-situ preservation of archaeological artefacts
February 11, 2003
- Probe into stolen precious sculptures urged...
- issue of "stolen art“ remains a stumbling block (Russia - Germany)
- Museum hit by asbestos scare
- Fire guts church's museum
- 2 nabbed in rare-stamp theft
- Protecting Ancient History in Iraq (Archaeologists Worry Antiquities, Artifacts Will be Lost in War)
- AIA Urges Protection of Iraq's Archaeological Heritage
February 10, 2003
- 'Cash-for-art' row erupts over Getty's link with Courtauld
- INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION 2003 Annual Conference, Seminar & Exhibits
- art market timeline covering the years 1987, the beginning of the art boom, to the present
- Turkey's 2002 Archeological Damage Report declared
- Dealer tore pages from ancient texts
- MEDICAL MUSEUM: Foetuses disappear
- American Says Painting in Spain Is Holocaust Loot
January 31 - February 8, 2003
- Stolen Matisse scandalizes Venezuelan art world
- Roman coins worth 100,000 euros (dollars) stolen from Utrecht museum
- Re: War in Iraq and Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Patrick Boylan) - A Lesson on Iraq From a Classicist
- UN COVERS UP PICASSO'S GUERNICA TO AVOID OFFENDING THE REGIME'S WAR CRIMINALS
- Artefact Traffic (Tom Flynn says that anti-restitution museum directors are out of step with both the public and museum ethics)
- PENNSYLVANIA: FIRE DAMAGES LANDMARK
- RE: Chinese Experts Demand Return of Cultural Relics (Edwin AC Sandberg)
- Missing Masterpieces; Thick or Flynn? (Peter Watson, reply Tom Flynn, plus moderator's comment)
- Waiter jailed for art theft spree across Europe
- Matisse Artwork Stolen From Greek Museum
- Iraq returns artifacts to Kuwait
- ARPA Conviction Sentencing
- query: automatic defibrillators
- Job Announcement:
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO is recruiting for an experienced professional with the leadership capabilities and strong credentials to direct the Department of Protection Services
- Sri Lanka's destroyed Tamil library raised from ashes
- Police catch man charged with stealing historical documents
- Book-theft suspect posed as transient
- Library book thief jailed
- LOOTING OF HISTORIC SITES SHOULD BE CRIME (U.K.)
- Italy rules out selling art treasures
January 30, 2003
- Museum camera thieves exhibit their own artlessness
- Acknowledgement in China is brewing about the problems it faces in protecting its cultural heritage,
but solutions are still very much unclear (Culturalheritagewatch.org)
- Too hot to handle? A new book about missing masterpieces totally ignores Second World War losses (Tom Flynn)
- Stephane Breitwieser files (Pierre Dumont, codine.be)
- Two years after devastating quake, noted museum in India's Gujarat state remains unrepaired
January 29, 2003
- Chinese Experts Demand Return of Cultural Relics
- Report: Chinese palace fire traced to illegal school within complex
- product info: Museum Security Knowledge Base Released (Steve Keller)
- Re: Chinese Experts Demand Return of Cultural Relics (Christopher Seal)
- Antiques smuggled from dig sites lose their history — and with it much of their value
- CULTURAL TREASURES SAVED FOR THE NATION
- Chicago Museum Cancels Show About Art Looting by the Nazis
- Attack on Iraq will put ancient sites at risk By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter
January 28, 2003
War in Iraq and Cultural Property
The USA did not ratify the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague 1954....
http://www.icomos.org/hague/
http://www.unesco.org/culture/legalprotection/war/html_eng/index_en.shtml
http://www.icomos.org/hague/hague.rat.html
http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/hague/html_eng/page9.shtml
January 28, 2003
- Antiques smuggled from dig sites lose their history — and with it much of their value
- Digger damage at ancient fort
- Book Review. Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art 1450-1900 by Gert-Rudolf Flick
- Vandalism at museum followed by theft of security camera
- Top Egyptian antiquities officials arrested, accused of involvement in bid to smuggle antiquities to Spain
- Fake antiques are a tradition in China
- Science reunites Elgin Marbles
January 27, 2003
- RE: Peruvian Huari Statue; Open letter to Kimbell Art Museum (reaction Mariana M. de Pease, Peru)
- Angry words sail in dispute over lakefront: Philanthropist riled by art museum director's comments
- Frozen pipes close Mint Museum uptown
- Buyer beware: All is not as advertised at Asian antiquities dealer
- Vandals destroy, deface Badlands pictographs
- Test to determine age in ceramics is not foolproof — or scamproof
- Egyptian antiquities officials accused of smuggling
- Matisse, Picasso and Concerns About the Crowds (about crowd controll at the temp MOMA)
- The Elgin Marbles and the Olympics - two icons of the culture of the loser
- Arsonists attack farming museum
- As the nation comes ever closer to war with Iraq, Americans should take a closer look at our prospective foe ... The cradle of civilization
January 26, 2003
- OPEN LETTER TO THE KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ABOUT ACQUISITION OF A PERUVIAN HUARI STATUE
January 25, 2003
- British Library refuses to return artefact
- CIDOC'2003 St.-Petersburg Announcement
- In war scenario, antiquities seen in the line of fire
- Painting gets 9/11 defacing
- Fire Guts Ancient Chinese Palace
- U.S. trying to return ancient artifacts to Guatemala
- Revealed: perilous sting to recover The Scream
- Man arrested in vandalism of statues
- Thieves nab 16 works from Haifa gallery
- Medallists back return of marbles to Parthenon
- Elgin Marbles Debate Could Heat Up
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
January 21, 2003
- 14th century Rising Sun flag snaffled in historic raid
- Whose Picasso is it? Looted by Nazis, a 1922 masterwork ignites a dispute between a Chicago arts patron and a Holocaust survivor's heir
- product and fair information: Codine improoved web site / SITEM fair in Paris 22-24 january
- Museum shrugs off diamond theft, will display world's largest black diamond
- Vandals ruin religion exhibit at Moscow's Sakharov museum
- Accused looter of ancient Nevada site plotted murder
- Tension Piles over Unique Bulgarian Museum Ownership
January 18, 2003
- Stolen Fraktur & Documents - York, PA
- EU invalidates law letting Italians, residents into museums for free, not tourists
- promo: Culturalheritage.net
- Fake gallery owner stole real art in e-mail scam
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
January 17, 2003
- Reward offer follows museum theft
- M F Hussain's painting stolen, or 'thrown away by mistake' ?
- Ethiopia receives old manuscripts on microfilm
- EBay art scam suspect arrested in Kansas
- UPS-BC employee accused of theft
- VANDALS WRECK HISTORIC HOUSE
- Archaeology digs routed by threat of war
- Theft of James Ensor painting from private residence
- Swiss dealer caught up in Chirac museum row
- Stolen Hassam Painting Returned
- Law requires UNLV to give artifacts back to tribe
- Fake Van Gogh in Oslo?
January 8 - 12, 2003
- ALR: Theft from beach house in Naples, Florida, USA.
- LAPD Jewelry Theft Alert
- query: Fire suppression systems
- Chile investigating Easter Island monoliths at Miami art gallery
- A Stolen Buddha Head Finds Its Way Back Home
- Museum theft bid is foiled
- Fire suppression systems
- Roban reliquias del siglo XIX en un convento porteńo (theft from 19th century church)
- museum destroyed by fire
- IRTE Director tries to export Rama, Shiva
- Fight for Picasso piece could move to Chicago
- The flap over the Parthenon plunder has the world’s great museums in a stew
- Chance to buy antique ceramic pieces
- Mystery looms over stone heads (Easter Island statues for sale in Miami most likely produced recently)
- The Art Newspaper; this week's top stories
- Grecian return puts Marbles in spotlight
January 7 - 8, 2003
- Re: Huari, Standing Dignitary (Kimbell Art Museum declaration)
- Easter Island artefacts' removal alarms Chile
- Fire damages Hermitage Museum music room
- Art theft tints way the world looks at Naples
- IFCPP: Training Announcement
January 4, 2003
- Chateau dubbed mini-Versailles partially destroyed by fire
- Art reproduction scandal has Botero in blue funk
- Van Gogh painting prank hitch ends in arrests
- With war in Iraq looming, many in the art historical world are worried about what might be damaged or destroyed
- In Baghdad, art thrives as war hovers
- A Piece Here, a Piece There: An Ancient Temple Is Rebuilt
- Elgin Marbles make 'virtual' return
January 1 - 2, 2003
- Naples beachfront home hit in $7 million art heist
- Dutch police arrest two over museum extortion bid