In the frame of this year’s annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists we will held our session on “CULTURAL PROPERTY: FROM LOOTING AND ILLEGAL TRADE TO RESTITUTION” on September 8th from 08:30 until 13:00. You can find the full programme of the conference here (the description of our session is on page 409).…
After very lengthy debates within the SAA itself, the statement on working with “responsible and responsive” stewards (artefact collectors, artefact hunters etc), is finally agreed and published! Society For American Archaeology Statement On Collaboration With Responsible And Responsive Stewards Of The Past Download Statement In the United States there are many people with an enthusiastic…
By Josephine Livingstone, from The New Republic, August 14, 2018 This weekend, headlines across the internet announced that the British Museum was to “return looted antiquities to Iraq.” Eight tiny artifacts, some of them 5,000 years old, were handed to Iraqi officials in a ceremony on Friday, to be transported to the National Museum of…
A worth to read article by John Byrne, published July 20, 2018, at the AML-Homepage. (AML is the leading firm solely focused on Anti-Money laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and financial crimes compliance solution). After so many years of following the AML community and being a part of that great group, it is hard…
On July 26, 2018, the 3-Member Appeal Penal Court of Athens gave its verdict on the Schinoussa case, in which Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis has been one of the main witnesses for the Greek State against the Papadimitriou family (heir of the dealer Christos Michaelides, partner of Robin Symes, antiquities dealers). According to an email from…
EAA-Committee on the Illicit Trade in Cultural Material 