Police: Antiquities, probably not mysteries, in suburban home http://tinyurl.com/383949 (Tribune) http://tinyurl.com/2mfnfn (Tribune) Berwyn police and the FBI...
Iran loses fight over "Lost Paradise" relics http://tinyurl.com/2jq8ol (WPost) Iran lost a legal fight on Thursday to recover 5,000-year-old treasures it says...
Egypt's team heads for France to retrieve mummy's hair http://english.people.com.cn/200703/30/eng20070330_362400.html An Egyptian archaeological delegation...
Looters plunder Peru's antique treasures http://tinyurl.com/3a89cq (AFP via Yahoo) Smugglers are sapping Peru's ancient heritage, with statues, gold finery and...
Suspected antiquity traffickers caught http://tinyurl.com/3aeppn (IOL) Greek police seized a haul of ancient coins, tools and other objects and arrested four...
Afghanistan's artifacts a worrying modern-day trade http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070326-074538-8592r In the markets of Mazar-I-Sharif and the...
Smugglers target the ancient treasures of Yemen http://tinyurl.com/yqerxx (AFP via Yahoo) Yemen is the heir to ancient civilisations including the Biblical...
Stolen Artworks and the Lawyers Who Reclaim Them http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28law.html BARELY a week seems to go by without news of...
Archaeologists investigate nighthawking http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/584731 A new report will look into the illegal removal and sale of...
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"Den of Antiquity" by Rebecca Mead: The Met and the antiquities market. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/09/toc_20070402 An interesting article...
Dear Dave, That New Yorker article is fascinating, and supportive of collecting. The tiny URL did not work, but I went to our files page and found it under...
Tajik leader wants treasure from British Museum http://tinyurl.com/24l8c5 (Reuters) Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov has ordered academics to seek the return...
Is the U.S. Protecting Foreign Artifacts? Don't Ask (Featured in the New York Times, April 8, 2007) (Reissued after editing non-displayable characters) THE...
Tajik president calls for return of treasure from British Museum http://tinyurl.com/2bhlo9 (Guardian) The president of Tajikistan has demanded that the British...
Desecration of the cradle of civilisation http://tinyurl.com/24mtns (Independent) Looters using mechanical diggers and protected by their own private armies ...
Iran's stolen relics worth $30b http://tinyurl.com/3dpoxb (Iranmania) Thousands of antiquities smuggled from the ancient city of Jiroft, south of Iran, to...
Peru's old treasures being looted http://tinyurl.com/36y76t (Washington Times) Smugglers are sapping Peru's ancient heritage as statues, gold finery and other...
British National Seized in Bulgaria for Smuggling Ancient Coins http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79490 A British national of Greek origin has been...
India, Others, Step Up Antiquities Scrutiny http://www.nysun.com/article/52889 The Republic of India has stepped up its scrutiny of New York's international...
Rogue diggers helping themselves to Macedonia's ancient treasure http://tinyurl.com/yw7y8r (IHT) "Watch your step," goes a joke by archaeologists in Macedonia,...
It's Official! -- Italy's List Of Ancient Treasures At Cleveland http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00343.htm Cleveland Museum representatives met in Rome...
Egypt Vows "Scientific War" If Germany Doesn't Loan Nefertiti http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070418-nefertiti-egypt.html She may not be Helen...
Story, no byline: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=7463§ionid=351020105 “The smuggler collected the coins during recent years and he was arrested...
Nuns killed for convent treasure http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6591467.stm Police in southern Greece are hunting the killers of two elderly nuns found ...
Dear friends, Sometimes, the divine corrupts man. On other ocassions, the thought of the divine corrupts man too. We should lower our heads this day, to this...
Egyptian statue that cost council £440,000 is a forgery http://tinyurl.com/3ddgvx (TIL) The offer from the antiques dealer seemed too good to be true. He had...
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