It looks like of the rule of law is not to one's liking then sabotage is acceptable. At least so it appears in the case of the Chinese Bronze statues sold by...
China 'patriot' sabotages auction http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7918128.stm A Chinese man who won a high profile auction for two bronze artworks...
This is a terrible tragedy and raises the question of whether it is best to concentrate important cultural collections in just a few locations or disburse them...
I hope all the people are found and that they are OK. As for the material, it really makes a lot of sense to scan this type of material and store it on the web...
Now this is why it is a bad thing for cultural materials to be stored at any one place. We should have learned from the fire of the Alexandria Library, where...
Speaking only as a contributor to the list: This disaster makes it clear that there is significant value in dispersion. Centralized control of ancient...
My job is in corporate records of assets, we hold national archives of the Telecommunications network of a major corporation from 100 year old Post Office...
According to an updated report in Der Spiegel, many of the pre-1945 documents were recorded on microfilm, though the microfilm back-ups are being called poor...
Treasure trove of stolen Afghan artifacts returned to Kabul http://tinyurl.com/bhl52q Antiquities that were pillaged from more than 1,500 ancient sites around ...
Afghan culture indeed. As if culture were something confined to a nation. If anything culture is personal. Certainly persons living in proximity may share...
Objects return to Turkey http://tinyurl.com/dblsx9 A candle and coin from Anatolia were seized in Austria when a Turkish citizen tried to sell the objects. ...
Chinese Art Dealer in Unpaid YSL Bronzes Furor Weeps http://tinyurl.com/btzcby By Le-Min Lim Cai Mingchao, the Chinese art dealer who is refusing to pay for...
HEAR! HEAR! Well said! This is why it comes down to why collectors are important, we preserve the knowledge and cultures of those long dead. The ancients...
If China truly wanted the bronzes back, they could have bid or just paid Cai for them. Their excuse about paying for them would encourage theft is quite bogus...
The Chinese case demonstrates the weakness of UNESCO in allowing nation states to define cultural property in their own borders. If a given state does not...
There is also another article in this issue of Science News that on looting and the antiquities trade. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/41640 The...
Museum Theft Highlights Controversy Over Return of Egypt's Artifacts http://tinyurl.com/bwjc5r It is often referred to as Egypt's Versailles Palace. With...
Networks of plunder http://tinyurl.com/dywxy3 [Science News] By Bruce Bower Archaeologists tracing the labyrinth of antiquities trafficking hope to shut it...
They key thing I take away on articles like this about looting is that they always take place in countries where there is no legal way to report and be...
More examples of artifacts not properly cared for government archaeologists. If this is what happens in a wealthy country with a strong tradition of...
This is just another example why governments are the worst people to conserve our history. Individuals who invest resources and time would not allow this to...
The German firm Lanz is posting this supporting the right to collect with its eBay auctions: http://www.lanz.com/ebay/Lanz-re.jpg The page on the right in in...
President's plea for protection of cultural heritage http://tinyurl.com/dc69yh [Famagusta Gazette] Cyprus President Demetris Christofias has called on Turkey...
This is another point in the persistent question of who is defining and protecting culture? As long as that is left to nation states it's going to be quite...
Truer words were never spoken. Unfortunately, there is the constant presence of this element called "power" which manifests itself as "control". The real...
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