25 Etruscan objects and some forgeries were recovered by the police; a 29 year old was reported. From the Quotidiano del Litorale November 21, 2017 (in Italian). C’è la skyphos o coppa ma anche un oinochoe e una kylix, la classica coppa per il vino, nell’inventario dei reperti sequestrati ad un giovane intercettato dai carabinieri…
Mafia and the passion of Messina Denaro for archaeology. From MeridioNews, written by Salvo Catalano, Novembre 20, 2017 (in Italian). Il sequestro al mercante d’arte Becchina riporta all’attenzione una storia che affonda le sue origini nel secolo scorso e che viene ripercorsa da diversi pentiti, recentemente sentiti dai magistrati. «Il vecchio Messina Denaro aveva questo hobby, la sua…
From The Guardian, November 22, 2017. A multimillion-dollar trade in fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls fuelled by a surge in interest from wealthy evangelicals in the US includes a significant number of suspected forgeries, two prominent experts have said. On scholar said the problem was so serious that up to 90% of the 75…
ARCA’s Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection is now accepting applications. Information copied from the ARCA’s homepage. In 2009 ARCA started the first of its kind, interdisciplinary, approach to the scholarly study of art crime. Representing a unique opportunity for individuals interested in training in a structured and academically diverse format, the…
Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, affiliated researcher at The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, has just identified today, November 20, 2017, the kylix (cup) lot 62 at the forthcoming antiquities auction of Gorny & Mosch in Munich, Germany (Auction 252 – 13.12.2017: Ancient Art: An important collection of Greek vases and parts…
Most of the artifacts that was stolen from the Univerisity Museum in August has been found. Two men are arrested. Thursday a preliminary court hearing was held, and police attorney Linn Revheim confirms that two men have been arrested. Several items from the burglary at the museum in august was found in the home of one of the men.…
A flood of potentially stolen art objects from the Middle East is showing up on Amazon, eBay, Facebook and WhatsApp, often ensnaring unsuspecting buyers. By Georgi Kantchev, Nov. 1, 2017 Earlier this year, Stephennie Mulder was in her office at the University of Texas at Austin when she received a Facebook message from Yemen with…
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has seized a Persian limestone relief fragment from the stand of a dealer at TEFAF New York amid accusations it had been stolen. The office of New York county district attorney Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr issued a warrant for the seizure of the carved relief of a Persian guard which…
It’s a sunny, late summer day in northern Mongolia’s Darkhad Basin – a large glacial lake basin nestled against the country’s Russian border. To the south stretch the grasslands of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe; to the north, the Siberian boreal forest. We stand – almost precisely – at the place they meet, at the forest’s…
Les enquêteurs de la brigade de recherches de Nîmes ont mis à jour un trafic présumé d’objets gallo-romains et médiévaux, revendus sur Internet. La perquisition menée aux domiciles de plusieurs personnes a permis la saisie de nombreuses pièces archéologiques, ainsi que deux détecteurs de métaux utilisés pour la découverte de ces trésors. Les fouilles et…
EAA-Community on the Illicit Trade in Cultural Material 