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

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war

The appellate court judges’ decision came as a surprise, as the general prosecutor had asked for the charges—which relate to the acquisition of Egyptian antiquities by the Louvre Abu Dhabi—to be dropped

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt

An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future

The ruling of the examining chamber, expected next year, could overturn the investigation against both curators in a case implicating the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum