Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks

Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale

The Egyptian items repatriated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office this week, collectively valued at $1.4m, include a wood coffin face and a royal alabaster vase

In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry

More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned

The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper

Edoardo Almagià, who graduated from Princeton University in 1973, has been connected to a range of antiquities currently in the museum's collection

Many of the 30 objects being repatriated are linked to the disgraced dealers Michael Ward and Robin Symes

The museum had been pressured and petitioned for years to return objects tied to smuggler Douglas Latchford

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cooperated in an investigation that determined each of the 44 objects had been stolen, looted or trafficked

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection

French high court rejects Martinez's appeal but drops charges against curator Jean-François Charnier in Egyptian antiquities investigation

Two of the objects will be handed over the Italian authorities, while three will remain on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta

The museum had revised its own prior research in an apparent attempt to keep a headless sculpture believed to depict Marcus Aurelius

Some of the 19 artefacts handed over by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had ties to notorious traffickers

The artefacts belonged to the late collector George Lindemann and were turned over to authorities voluntarily by his family

The museum had recently revised public information about the sculpture, likely a depiction of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, in an apparent attempt to distance itself from its alleged looting

A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far"

Six of the eight allegedly looted objects were donated to the museum by Emma C. Bunker, an associate of smuggler Douglas Latchford

Benefactor Emma Bunker worked closely with antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford

New report traces the origins of the oft-repeated superlative, which its authors say is incorrect and actually makes it harder to fight trafficking

The artefacts, valued at a total of $1.26m, changed hands with a repatriation ceremony

The chairman of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art reflects on an increasingly scrutinised industry as the organisation marks its 30th anniversary

The late antiquities dealer was accused of profiting off stolen Cambodian antiquities

Mohamad Alcharihi faces up to two years in prison and will be sentenced at the end of August

Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi is accused of misrepresenting the true value of a mosaic that was looted from Syria in 2015

Apsara Iyer says looting of Indian temples was a "wake-up call" to understanding how cultural heritage and crime intersect