Antiquities trafficking
A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects
The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks
Officials in New York return antiquities worth $14m to Pakistan
Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale
US authorities return antiquities linked with notorious smuggling ring to Egypt
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
Met Museum signs cultural-property agreement with Thailand and returns two statues
In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry
Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey
More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned
Art Institute of Chicago accused of holding onto Nazi-looted Egon Schiele
The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper
Princeton University Art Museum identifies 16 artefacts linked to alumnus and alleged smuggler
Edoardo Almagià, who graduated from Princeton University in 1973, has been connected to a range of antiquities currently in the museum's collection
US authorities return a $3.7m trove of antiquities to Greece
Many of the 30 objects being repatriated are linked to the disgraced dealers Michael Ward and Robin Symes
The Metropolitan Museum will repatriate 16 Khmer sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand
The museum had been pressured and petitioned for years to return objects tied to smuggler Douglas Latchford
US museum repatriates 44 antiquities to Egypt, Italy and Turkey
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cooperated in an investigation that determined each of the 44 objects had been stolen, looted or trafficked
Antiquities worth $1m, including a piece tied to trafficker Subhash Kapoor, returned to Nepal
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection
Antiquities trafficking charges upheld against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
French high court rejects Martinez's appeal but drops charges against curator Jean-François Charnier in Egyptian antiquities investigation
US university museum returns five looted antiquities to Italy
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
Cleveland Museum of Art sues the Manhattan District Attorney to retain ownership of $20m bronze statue
The museum had revised its own prior research in an apparent attempt to keep a headless sculpture believed to depict Marcus Aurelius
Looted antiquities worth $19m returned to Italian authorities in New York
Some of the 19 artefacts handed over by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had ties to notorious traffickers
US authorities return 33 looted antiquities to Cambodia
The artefacts belonged to the late collector George Lindemann and were turned over to authorities voluntarily by his family
Bronze Roman statue, believed to have been looted from Turkey, seized from Cleveland Museum of Art
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
'More than 1,500' artefacts were stolen from British Museum, internal investigation reportedly reveals
A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far"
Officials from three countries have called on Denver Art Museum to return eight artefacts in its collection
Six of the eight allegedly looted objects were donated to the museum by Emma C. Bunker, an associate of smuggler Douglas Latchford
Denver Art Museum cut ties with a disgraced donor—but critics say that’s not enough
Benefactor Emma Bunker worked closely with antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford
Antiquities trafficking is not ‘the third largest illicit trade in the world’, researchers claim
New report traces the origins of the oft-repeated superlative, which its authors say is incorrect and actually makes it harder to fight trafficking
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returns two looted statues to Libya from the collection of disgraced former dealer Robin Symes
The artefacts, valued at a total of $1.26m, changed hands with a repatriation ceremony
'The most illiquid property you can have is a Greek vase': Vincent Geerling on the challenges facing the antiquities trade
The chairman of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art reflects on an increasingly scrutinised industry as the organisation marks its 30th anniversary
Douglas Latchford’s estate hands over $12m to settle US trafficking case
The late antiquities dealer was accused of profiting off stolen Cambodian antiquities
California man found guilty of smuggling ancient Roman mosaic looted from Syria into US
Mohamad Alcharihi faces up to two years in prison and will be sentenced at the end of August
California man on trial for allegedly importing Roman mosaic looted during Syrian civil war to US
Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi is accused of misrepresenting the true value of a mosaic that was looted from Syria in 2015
Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama
Apsara Iyer says looting of Indian temples was a "wake-up call" to understanding how cultural heritage and crime intersect
The Metropolitan Museum will return 15 sculptures sold by trafficker Subhash Kapoor to India
The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection
More than 1,000 objects in the Met’s collection linked to alleged traffickers and looters, investigation finds
A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues
In Burkina Faso and Mali, pilot scheme builds defences against illegal trafficking of cultural antiquities
Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war