Resources
The looting crisis and the antiquities trade
On-line
- 2 Utahns plead guilty in sweeping artifacts case
Buying, selling, owning the past
Vandalism, looting are worries as parks close
- A Tourist's Role in Archaeological Ethics
- Ancient History for Sale
- Antiquities cases work way through court system
- Antiquities Collecting and the Looting of Archaeological Sites
- Archaeologists let looters do some of the work
- Art Theft Central
- Artifacts suspect wants to change plea
- Asset Valuation: Looted Art Carries It's Own Set of Problems
- Banteay Chhmar temple wins American preservation grant
- Cambodia Protects Antiquities with Red List
- Collecter Crackdown: Artifact robbers put archaeology on the offensive
- Conversation: The Looters Next Door
- Cooling U.S. Market Sends Tomb Raiders Abroad
- Could UPenn Museum's gold be from ancient Troy?
- Creal Springs man sentenced for digging up artifacts
- Cultural Heritage Investigations and Repatriations
- Cultural Heritage Resource (Stanford Archaeology Center)
- Deals considered in Native American artifacts case
- Death of 'Source' puts videos in jeapordy
- Defense in artifacts sting seeks informant's records
- Drugs, Guns and Dirt
- Ethics, E-Commerce, and the Future of the Past. SAA Bulletin 18.
- For sale: Iraq's smuggled heritage
- From Khmer Treasures to Chinese Antiquities
- Gaza Strip moves to preserve its abundant ancient treasure
- Grave robbers desecrate and loot Fort Craig, N.M., cemetery.
- Greek police arrest 2 with valuable antiquities
- ICOM's Red List of Cambodian Antiquities at Risk
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre ( IARC )
- Illicit Antiquities Trade: Source, Transit, Market, Mafia
- Informant in federal Indian artifacts case is dead
- International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property
- Iraq War, 2003 Web Archive
- Is the stealing of cultural objects of others a specific cultural heritage of Europe or is it a universal heritage?
- Italy Recovers Euro165 Million in Stolen Art, Relics
- Lebanon's archaeological sites a pillager's paradise
- Looting and the Antiquities Market
- Looting and Theft of Cultural Property: Are We Making Progress?
- Looting Mali's History
- Looting Matters Blog
- Macedonia seeks to stop archaeological smugglers
- Man pleads guilty to threatening informant
- Networks of Plunder
- New rules could limit the hunt of sunken treasures off Florida's coast
- On a misty sea, a dark discovery.
- Pakistan's Turmoil Endangers its Archaeological Treasures.
- Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities
- Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- The Art of Looting
- The Inside Man
- The International Art Trade and the Ethics of Collecting
- The market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008
- The Online Sales of Antiquities
- The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling
- The Trade in Stolen Antiquities
- Thieves loot Lao city's Buddha statue heritage
- Three charged in theft of Viking treasures
- To Catch a Looter
- To save Mayan artifacts from looters, a form of protective custody.
- Tomb raiders bulldoze Jiangsu site
- Turkey Plagued by Illicit Antiquities Trade
- Two men charged with excavating artifacts
- Undercover informant in stolen artifacts case apparently commits suicide
- US judge backs return of $500 mln coin haul to Spain
Off-line
- Tubb, K., 2002. 'Point Counterpoint' In Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and The Extinction of Archaeology, London: Routledge
- Tubb, K., 1995. Antiquities Trade or Betrayed, London: Archtype
- Brodie, Neil, and Kathryn Walker Tubb (eds), 2002. Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology, New York: Routledge
- Renfrew, Colin, 2000. Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, Duckworth, London
- Simpson, Elizabeth, 1997. Spoils of War: World War II and its Aftermath:The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, New York: Abrams
- Brodie, Neil, Jennifer Doole, and Colin Renfrew (eds), 2001. Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World's Archaeological Heritage, McDonald Institute Monographs. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: Cambridge
- Windson, J., 2004. Antiquities are Now Sought After by Interior Designers as Fashionable-and Affordable-Art, The Observer, p. 12
- Renfrew, Colin, 1993. Collectors are the real looters, Archaeology 46(3):16-17
- Sease, C., 1997. Conservation and the Antiquities Trade, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 36.1, pp. 49-58
- Hofstadter, D., 1994. Goldber's Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Mackenzie, S.R.M. , 2005. Law, Regulation, and the Illicit Antiquities Market, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 45, pp. 249-268
- O'Reilly, Dougald, 2007. Shifting Trends of Heritage Destruction in Cambodia: From Temples to Tombs, Historic Environment, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 12-16
- Greenfield, J, 1999. The Return of Cultural Treasures, Cambridge University Press
- Simpson, E., 1997. The Spoils of War, Abrams, N