Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

Heritage group Athar were part of a campaign highlighting the social media giants' “black market in antiquities”

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery wants to work in tandem with the Benin Dialogue Group, which is made up of institutions that hold the majority of the pieces

Independent scholar uncovers questionable provenance for the sculpture that the Oxford institution bought from Sotheby's in 1967

British Museum and Art Loss Register collaborate over recovery of ancient bull decoration that was consigned to an online auction

A portrayal of Lot by Hans Baldung Grien was sold to the Gemäldegalerie in 1937 by Hans Purrmann

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The database includes 9,000 catalogues from more than 390 auction houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

The maker of baking products, muesli and pizza, promises to return any plundered art to heirs of Jewish owners

Interior minister says art and antiquities crime is ‘not considered a priority’

Bill aimed at ending Islamic State’s rampant looting of archaeological sites is passed in unanimous vote

University presidents and faculty from around 20 nations are due to participate

The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler

Experts at London symposium warn against misinformation and lack of evidence

La bergère rentrant des moutons, seized by Nazis in 1941, has been hanging in an Oklahoma university museum since 2000

California museums caught up in the ring were raided by federal agents in 2008

With the country in “chaos” because of civil war, museum council warns officials, institutions and the art trade of the kinds of objects that could be looted

Terrorist group functions as a modern racketeering operation through sale of plundered cultural objects

Museums and the trade want to put an end to the Catch-22 situation with Medici and Becchina

The Vatican, with Antonio Canova as its representative, and the British government, with the Duke of Wellington at the forefront, played leading roles in repatriating the masterpieces that were the spoils of Napoleon’s European campaigns

One of the main art databases, the Art Loss Register, has issued certificates for works looted or subject to recovery claims

Authorities claim that Kapoor organised global trade in stolen Asian antiquities, casting doubt on some of his gifts to international museums

The painting of Venus and Cupid hung in Hitler’s breakfast room