BrainCan - illicit antiquities

christie s paris auction of sacred images and...

Today,Christie’s Paris auction house is offering sacred images and other antiquities from Asia,...

national geographic s preparing a q a on nazi war...

Kris Rodgers has been kind enough to give an initial reply to the alarm,horror, disbelief, and...

check your provenance

As has oft been pointed out (sometimes with magnificent style),even the Big Three auction houses,...

khums: an un islamic tax for an islamic...

Before I say anything else,I want to reaffirm that it’s very difficult to net estimable evidence ...

greek police have new evidence on the olympia...

Allegedly,Greek intelligence believe used phone-tapping, and Greek police now believe information on...

a dismembered buddha from indonesia sold for 246...

By the market’s seemingly only definition,profit, Christie’s Paris auction of sacred images and...

financial investment in the antiquities market: a...

Just in case readers did not see final month’s updates to the story of the six-century-old...

does the e in ebay stand for easy ? antiquities...

Archaeologist-lawyer Tess Davis saw an advert for an Ancient Sarcophagus with Hieroglyphics from...

does for order looting exist? examining the...

Is looting-to-order/theft-to-order a myth? whether (sometimes) people achieve loot directly for a...

who would sell a ground dug german helmet or a ...

Or,as Michael Schmalenströr and the Pink Agendist ask, ‘which non-Nazi seriously wants to contain...

it s a leg. it s embarrassingly obviously a leg.

whether proof (apart from cuts and bruises) were needed that my spatial skills are so poor that I...

the guennol stargazer - an iconic work of art from...

‘With its sleek,summary form and its eyes tilted slightly towards the heavens, this rare complete...

unknown gunmen have killed two security escorts,...

Around 8.55am on Wednesday morning,abductors with ‘guns and machetes’ kidnapped two...

isis and the missing treasures, the missing...

Last year,Simon Cox led a team who investigated ISIS: Looting for terrorism for the BBC (File on 4)....

metal harvest

This is a very brief post,in-between computer crashes. As the Wehrmacht Awards forum’s Jerry B...

antiquities, looted from syria s palmyra museum,...

Update soon. For now,see title… I think I’ve found the itsy-bitsy information that exists –...

the lure of antiquities in the new york times and...

The original York Times has explored the lure of antiquities. I don’t want the evidence to be...

antiquities looted during unrest in egypt are...

I’ll write more about this soon,but I can’t apt now. Suffice to say, undocumented Egyptian...

national geographic use metal detectors, find new...

In what may be the most grotesque Third Reich-themed “edutainment”/”infotainment point to...

who ran the ebay auction of the gaza apollo?

I want to make clear,immediately, just how uncomfortable I am with this post. Both the act and the...

40 people against a wave of organised antiquities...

While I was away,the Inter Press Services’s (IPS) Apostolis Fotiadis summarised how the Austerity...

unknown gunmen have killed two excavation workers,...

Around 8.55am on Wednesday morning,abductors with ‘guns and machetes’ kidnapped two...

pretty crude fakes that were advertised as...

I thought that the statue looked like a forgery,but I have no background in this fabric, so I...

antiquities, looted from syria s palmyra museum,...

Update (30th November 2015): the objects were ‘pretty crude fakes‘ that seem to have been...

why don t dealers in london keep records as...

Thanks to Esther Saoub and Paul Barford amongst others,there fill been many updates to the ‘first...

civilians may have been kidnapped and exchanged...

In a scary (and curious) turn of events,civilians from Afrin/Efrin – a town and canton in Rojava,...

islamic state cultural racketeering: looting,...

Archaeologists Amr Al-Azm and Salam al-Kuntar and cultural policy specialist Brian Daniels occupy...

unknown gunmen attacked chersonesos dig team,...

Unrelenting spoiled news: ‘in Sevastopol,near Fiolenta [Bay], unknown persons shot at...

russian separatists have demanded that ukrainian...

The Russian separatist administration of Donetsk,or elements within that administration, have...

iraq: archaeological treasures are important, but...

The Iraqi Parliamentary Committee on Tourism and Antiquities has drafted a new law for the...

asia week auction, wtf10: afghanistan - bronze...

The Dalton Somaré Gallery claims that it is ‘able to offer collectors and connoisseurs precisely...

german archaeologists refute allegations of...

In my final post,I queried recent claims of German archaeologists looting Nigerian archaeological...

libyan whispers about looting: twice the...

On the community journalism website AllVoices,Indian freelance writer Nina Rai has very slightly...

kidnapped german archaeologists, professor peter...

Police possess relayed that the two German archaeologists who were kidnapped for ransom,professor...

unknown gunmen have killed two excavation workers,...

Around 8.55am on Wednesday morning,abductors with ‘guns and machetes’ kidnapped two...

illicit trafficking, provenance research and due...

final year,UNESCO hosted a round table on the movement of cultural property in 2016: regulation,...

theft to order in italy and subsistence...

While I try to finalise the presentation of a report on antiquities trafficking for a roundtable...

it cannot be much more correct(ed): sunni pmu...

Fortunately,I’m running out of ways to procure this wrong. I initially saw the list of...

not even battlefield looting: theft of medals from...

A world away from genuine historians who respect soldiers and preserve evidence of service and...

syria lebanon antiquities smuggling involves...

I noted before that clash antiquities trafficking involves ‘petty theft as well as grand...

is the wine chalice from palmyra museum a...

Last week,Classical archaeologist and art historian Vladimir Stissi looked at the ‘pretty crude...

soil, saw marks and undocumented antiquities on...

This is a leisurely way to make a rapid/fast point,so you really can skip over the sections on soil...

metrics, altmetrics and back handed compliments

The readership statistics for my thesis,on the politics and ethics of cultural heritage work in...

when and by whom kyiv history museum was looted...

This is just a note to highlight that,early in the unrest in Ukraine, on the night of the 18th-19th...

syria: antiquities for arms trade - sky news...

Yesterday,Sky News invited me to give a live television interview (at lunchtime today) on the...

greece: nazi antiquities looting and austerity...

I tend not to discuss historical cases of illicit excavation or illicit possession of antiquities...

asia week auction, wtf14: china - no longer...

Wei Asian Arts hold a ‘[s]tanding Buddha’ from China. Ironically,it can’t stand, because it...

syria: conflict antiquities and funding of regime...

Happily,WordPress possess unblocked (my access to) my blog. As Dorothy King says of the Syrian...

olympia museum robbery suspects remanded; plead...

Two of the three arrested for the Olympia museum robbery have been remanded and one has been...

according to the archaeological association of...

The Archaeological Association of Nigeria (AAN) accused German archaeologists of looting; then the...

the aan has repeated its allegations of frankfurt...

I maintain the AAN’s response to the Frankfurt archaeologists’ defence. It is an eight-page...

update and correction: unknown gunmen have killed...

Unfortunately,there has not been any more news on rescue efforts yet. However, I absorb found more...

i m assisting with some assessment and planning in...

This is just a note to say that,fortunately, I’m assisting with some assessment and planning in...

illicit antiquities - call for papers

I’m very gay to announce that I’m guest editing a special collection of peer-reviewed articles...

were these palmyrene statues recently excavated...

I had been planning to leave this note until later,as I am supposed to be writing – and, my dear...

schlagzeile geht schneller als recherche - uber...

Esther Saoub and Amir Musawy beget published a clear, helpful (German-language) article about Abu...

harassment by proxy or not? i can expect a knock...

I mentioned final week that cultural heritage campaigners were getting threatened and endangered by...

palmyra: looting under the rebels, the assad...

As I’ve worked and reworked this,I’ve found (and removed) half-finished sentences from previous...

anyone caught carrying a map or book using those...

Anthropologist Rebecca Bryant has highlighted that the Greek Cypriot-administered Republic of Cyprus...

using open source data to identify participation...

My thesis documents some of the problems with research on (or simply amid) the Cyprus clash –...

clarification awaiting clarification: the latvian...

A historian in the Second World War section of the Latvian War Museum,Valdis Kuzmins, has clarified...

a note on the volunteer human rights exhumers of...

Some of the dismay and arouse concerning Nazi War Diggers has been directed at the local advisers...

urgent ethical and legal questions for national...

National Geographic Channels International (NatGeoTV),ClearStory and their Nazi War Diggers must...

illicit antiquities in the attorney general s...

Now that ‘Self-Defence [Самооборони]’ (civil order) guards acquire secured...

a note on digging antiquities under economic...

Yesterday,a Nigerian newspaper, Vanguard, or published Antiquities Trade in Nigeria: Looting in the...

the antiquities trade in nigeria: looting in the...

African nations’ cultural objects believe been harvested by foreign powers; attacked by religious...

greek police search switzerland for artefacts...

A week ago,it was reported that Greek police were searching Switzerland for artefacts stolen from...

agreement between archaeological association of...

Arts/media consultant Tajudeen Sowole has reported a ‘truce‘ between the stakeholders(1) in the...

cultural heritage work in cyprus: dphil thesis -...

My DPhil thesis,Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in clash Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in...

how many people are metal detecting and how many...

On Friday,(open-access) Cogent Social Sciences published my estimation of how many people are...

update and correction: unknown gunmen have killed...

Unfortunately,there has not been any more news on rescue efforts yet. However, I hold found more...

correction: sunni popular mobilisation unit raided...

Yesterday,I relayed Al Sumaria TV news that a current Mobilisation Unit (PMU) in Iraq had raided the...

thank you, sussex police, for confirming that i am...

The final time that (I know) someone read my work over my shoulder,they struck up conversation. This...

is looting to order just a myth ? open source...

Last year,underwater archaeologist Peter Campbell and I blogged approximately evidence of...

according to antiquities trade lobbyist peter...

On the question of why a lobbyist would characterise cooperation between archaeologists and...

well read and well dead: the islamic state...

Yesterday,spotted it in Mehmet Nuri Ekinci’s report, I appealed for relieve in identifying an...

oa, no way

Yesterday,at the very same time (4.33pm) that I was in a assembly discussing the virtues of open...

conflict antiquities from apamea do not finance...

Despite the headline,the Times has not presented any evidence of Islamic State-looted antiquities on...

state arms for antiquities trafficking between...

Consolidating my attempt to piece together evidence of terrorist antiquities trading and state arms...

operation aureus hieratica: egyptian spanish...

The details of Operation Aureus (within Spain,Operation Hieratica) – a massive and remarkable...

agenda? what? retraction? how?

Nearly four years ago,I blogged a basic analysis of antiquities in the Severis Collection. It...

ukraine: illicit antiquities trade recap

Behind the fog of war and the smoke of the propaganda machine,there is evidence that Ukraine’s...

no trouble with customs. perhaps trouble with...

Paul Barford’s turned up yet more unsavoury information. It appears that,either National...

putin s tourists (russia s agents) have ransacked...

‘#Putin’s tourists [maintain] ransacked a veterans museum in the prosecutor’s office in...

the apollo of gaza: stories as different as night...

There’s more news on the memoir of the Gaza Apollo/tray-bearer(1),but now we might know less…...

sotheby s blood antiquities from cambodia

In Cambodia (as elsewhere),looting and smuggling are associated with poverty and corruption....

illicit antiquities trading in nigeria: boutique...

Having looked at some of the harms that are caused by illicit business,and some of the evidence for...

greece: the massive organised illicit antiquities...

Regarding final year’s arrest of 45 suspected members of an illicit antiquities dealing gang, the...

egypt: the boutique business of looting and...

As yet,Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiquities Squad (AAS) don’t know ‘how these objects left...

macedonia: international antiquities looting gang...

Macedonian police beget raided 23 homes and businesses,and arrested 17 people who are suspected of...

greece: arrest of metal detecting antiquities...

Greek police arrested a 25-year-used man as an antiquities looter (αρχαιοκάπηλος); they...

asia week auction, wtf17: is a tibeto chinese ...

Robert R. Bigler has a ‘Tibeto-Chinese‘ bronze Bodhisattva. Was it acquired in Tibet,or in...

asia week auction, wtf15: afghanistan(?),...

The Nancy Wiener Gallery has the head of a disembodied Gandharan Bodhisattva. It’s only surprising...

asia week auction, wtf12: afghanistan - severed...

Yet again,it’s frustrating to note, the Dalton Somaré Gallery allegedly ‘offer[s] collectors...

asia week auction, wtf11: kashmir (again). does...

As I mentioned,the Dalton Somaré Gallery claims to ‘offer collectors and connoisseurs precisely...

destruction, theft and rescue of cultural property...

Greek Cypriot officials enjoy estimated that,since 1974, ‘several dozen’ wall paintings and...

geroulanos to exhaust all avenues in olympia...

As blogged on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues and Things You Can’t steal...

police detain suspect for olympia museum robbery

Kathimerini has just reported that police hold detained’ a ‘foreign national’ on suspicion of...

photo of nine babylonian era antiquities that were...

Whenshared the news of the raid on the Islamic State by the Sunni well-liked Mobilisation Unit (PMU)...

battlefield recovery s nazi war digger notes that...

Despite professional and public outcry then and now, the “Nazi War Diggers” who were going to be...

a gang in germany robbed assets from churches and...

Yet another reason for quietness on the blog is that my computer is broken,but I just saw this story...

the smuggler had been smoking a cigarette when he...

When the Islamic State conquered Palmyra,‘the world recoiled in horror, fearing [its]...

will cyprus sell repatriated antiquities at...

Will it buy looted antiquities at auction in order to repatriate them? Yes. The Committee for...

was most of the looting at the most extensively...

A few months ago,I pieced together a sample of satellite image data from the the Geospatial...

wouldn t it be better for collectors and dealers...

It looks like 2017,when Cyprus and the United States will discuss the renewal of their Memorandum of...

activist agenda?

I spent Christmas Eve refuting a comment by someone who had neither the courage nor the evidence to...

heritage crime and threats to cultural heritage in...

Thanks to the editors of Heritage Crime,Louise Grove and Suzie Thomas, Ive also had the opportunity...

the least out of date news on looting and...

Limits on communication,limits on information and sheer lack of physical security severely limit our...

when was the apollo of gaza taken into custody...

David Meadows is doing a series on the “Apollo” (tray-bearer) statue from Gaza. So far,he’s...

public antiquities in the president s residence?

Since Viktor Yanukovych’s retreat from Kiev,many Ukrainians absorb visited the president’s...

why was the gaza statue s left eye gouged out?

As Bloomberg Businessweeks Vernon Silver and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in...

the apollo of gaza or the tray bearer?

Two quick notes (while several posts are on their way)… As discussed in the comments on on of my...

the apollo of gaza: the origins of the origins...

In the last post,I compared the fisherman’s – fishermen‘s – tale(s) of how (t)he(y) found...

syria lebanon: syrian lebanese antiquities for...

In the past week,two investigations have explored the Syrian antiquities market in Lebanon. One has...

asia week auction, wtf20: cambodia - a bronze...

Buddhist Art also has a bronze,Bayon-period Khmer Siva ‘[f]rom an archaic German collection’....

asia week auction, wtf2: pakistan(?),...

Christophe Hioco also has a ‘[r]are Gandhara[n] Stupa’, without even a notional national...

multidimensional poverty and the illicit...

Some of the world’s most impoverished countries may eradicate acute poverty within a generation....

aside: there was false hope of solving olympia...

While trying to improve my Google alerts (particularly the Greek- and Turkish-language ones), I...

quantitative analysis of open source data on metal...

With an urgency that is highlighted by UNESCO’s consideration of “treasure hunters” and...

i am not there. i have not said that. i could not...

I appreciate that this information is being circulated by someone who is trying to secure funding...

tense being reviewed: antiquities looting to order...

A month ago,Donna Yates, who teaches on the Postgraduate Certificate in Antiquities Trafficking and...

the wco did not claim to have evidence that church...

I checked the report with the World Customs Organisation and the WCO told me that it had not claimed...

the inexact science of exact numbers: does anyone...

I’m still working on some of the posts that Id planned to publish before this one,but I’m not...

terrorist antiquities trading and state arms...

The antiquities trade rules in the Russia-drafted United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution...

antiquities looting under regime, rebels and...

Assisted by researchers at the Penn Cultural Heritage middle (at Pennsylvania Museum) and the...

is there a conflict antiquities trade in qurans...

A ‘group of gunmen’ looted the Karamanli Mosque on the 7th of October and the Sufi Othman Pasha...

will the ukraine forum on asset recovery (ufar)...

The U.K. and U.S.-organised,international Ukraine Forum on Asset Recovery (UFAR) will bring together...

nazi war diggers: error 404 - page not found

Choosing this month’s Blogging Archaeology banner,there could be only one… (No, not that one.)...

i ve found loads of [second world war bombs], just...

When the Nazi War Diggers’ Kris Rodgers (Addicted to Bleeps (or Addictedtobleeps) posted a YouTube...

national geographic are looking into it… under...

Donna Yates contacted the Executive Vice-President for Communications at National Geographic....

russian propaganda about cultural property crime...

At the same time as the Yanukovych regime’s cultural property crimes are being...

asia week auction, wtf19: cambodia - temples ...

Buddhist Art has a sandstone Khmer deity. The description includes a one-word phrase,‘Baphuon‘,...

asia week auction, wtf13: afghanistan(?) - severed...

Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer hold a ‘Hadda style’ head of a Gandharan Bodhisattva,which...

olympia museum robbery: three local, greek...

Three local,Greek suspects gain been arrested for the robbery of the Museum of the History of the...

interpol has initiated an operation to try to...

According‘Interpol has mounted an operation to try to recover’ the ‘priceless’ artefacts...

rumour wrong: artefacts stolen from olympia museum...

Greek police absorb not found the Olympic museum’s stolen artefacts. Ta Nea absorb reported that...

exploitation of refugees from syria or...

On the 22nd of February,police stopped and searched a suspicious’ vehicle on Alparslan Türkeş...

a grand challenge for archaeology (and...

Doug Rocks-Macqueen is (or has been) running a #blogarch blogging carnival on the grand challenges...

the conflict antiquities trade: a historical...

A (correctly-numbered) preprint copy of my historical overview of the clash antiquities trade is...

archaeologists, concerned citizens and their...

Violence against cultural heritage workers,and law enforcement agents who protect cultural property,...

note: rim turkmani hasn t estimated is income from...

The headline in the post. When the Australian’s Jamie Walker said that,‘in recent research for...

no newspaper published this : organised...

Solicitor Christiana O’Connell-Schizas has reported on an Antiquities Bust in Aphrodite’s City...

national geographic has pulled nazi war diggers ...

Since ‘”consulting with colleagues” at the National Geographic Society’,the National...

trinkets, false leads and forgeries - the first...

Whatever the Gaza “Apollo” is(n’t),these aren’t it (either)… In the first Arabic-language...

resolution against terrorist antiquities trading...

Russia is drafting a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to combat terrorist...

antiquities looting and the human rights of...

I’ve finally published something on the Human Rights of Subsistence Diggers. I cannot thank the...

does the brotherhood cemetery committee and the...

My first appearance in the Daily Mail… My grandparents would contain been so proud. I’d always...

asia week auction, wtf16: india - river goddess...

The Xanadu Gallery has a carving of the river goddess Yamuna in a (temple(?)) door jamb from India....

claim that police found olympic museum artefacts...

Evidently,Google has not crawled the updates to the main post (on the Greek police’s arrest of at...

libya: bombing, looting; lobbying and churnalism

In the Hindu,journalist Vladimir Radyuhin has reported massive looting of ancient artefacts underway...

preconceived notions detract from the scholarly...

My quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property does not...

unsc monitoring team recommendation: moratorium on...

Peterhas broken the news that,in a Letter (1) to the Chair of the United Nations Security Council...

did golden dawn leaders collect, trade or traffic...

Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn’s Führer-principled organisation did not only function to commit mass murder...

egyptian archaeologists syndicate demands...

Here,I want to briefly and amateurishly review the crisis of looting and destruction in Egypt, the...

libya: looting claims rejected; propaganda...

I had already blogged my distrust of the claims of an archaeological crisis in Libya:...

more and less information on the murder of...

More and less information has emerged in relation to the murder of excavation workers Anas Ibrahim...

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christie s paris auction of sacred images and...

national geographic s preparing a q a on nazi war...

check your provenance

khums: an un islamic tax for an islamic...

greek police have new evidence on the olympia...

a dismembered buddha from indonesia sold for 246...

financial investment in the antiquities market: a...

does the e in ebay stand for easy ? antiquities...

does for order looting exist? examining the...

who would sell a ground dug german helmet or a ...

it s a leg. it s embarrassingly obviously a leg.

the guennol stargazer - an iconic work of art from...

unknown gunmen have killed two security escorts,...

isis and the missing treasures, the missing...

metal harvest

antiquities, looted from syria s palmyra museum,...

the lure of antiquities in the new york times and...

antiquities looted during unrest in egypt are...

national geographic use metal detectors, find new...

who ran the ebay auction of the gaza apollo?

40 people against a wave of organised antiquities...

unknown gunmen have killed two excavation workers,...

pretty crude fakes that were advertised as...

antiquities, looted from syria s palmyra museum,...

why don t dealers in london keep records as...

civilians may have been kidnapped and exchanged...

islamic state cultural racketeering: looting,...

unknown gunmen attacked chersonesos dig team,...

russian separatists have demanded that ukrainian...

iraq: archaeological treasures are important, but...

asia week auction, wtf10: afghanistan - bronze...

german archaeologists refute allegations of...

libyan whispers about looting: twice the...

kidnapped german archaeologists, professor peter...

unknown gunmen have killed two excavation workers,...

illicit trafficking, provenance research and due...

theft to order in italy and subsistence...

it cannot be much more correct(ed): sunni pmu...

not even battlefield looting: theft of medals from...

syria lebanon antiquities smuggling involves...

is the wine chalice from palmyra museum a...

soil, saw marks and undocumented antiquities on...

metrics, altmetrics and back handed compliments

when and by whom kyiv history museum was looted...

syria: antiquities for arms trade - sky news...

greece: nazi antiquities looting and austerity...

asia week auction, wtf14: china - no longer...

syria: conflict antiquities and funding of regime...

olympia museum robbery suspects remanded; plead...

according to the archaeological association of...

the aan has repeated its allegations of frankfurt...

update and correction: unknown gunmen have killed...

i m assisting with some assessment and planning in...

illicit antiquities - call for papers

were these palmyrene statues recently excavated...

schlagzeile geht schneller als recherche - uber...

harassment by proxy or not? i can expect a knock...

palmyra: looting under the rebels, the assad...

anyone caught carrying a map or book using those...

using open source data to identify participation...

clarification awaiting clarification: the latvian...

a note on the volunteer human rights exhumers of...

urgent ethical and legal questions for national...

illicit antiquities in the attorney general s...

a note on digging antiquities under economic...

the antiquities trade in nigeria: looting in the...

greek police search switzerland for artefacts...

agreement between archaeological association of...

cultural heritage work in cyprus: dphil thesis -...

how many people are metal detecting and how many...

update and correction: unknown gunmen have killed...

correction: sunni popular mobilisation unit raided...

thank you, sussex police, for confirming that i am...

is looting to order just a myth ? open source...

according to antiquities trade lobbyist peter...

well read and well dead: the islamic state...

oa, no way

conflict antiquities from apamea do not finance...