Illicit antiquities and international litigation – the Turkish experience

Protection of Cultural Heritage in Turkish Private Law

Lydian Treasure

The Antiquities Market

Valuing the past

Turkey to act on Bubon bronzes

ARTSBEAT; Turkey Pressing Case on Looted Antiquities

The Tomb of Hecatomnus – Milas, Turkey

Turkey asks Getty Museum to return looted antiquities

Artifact hunting popular as Missouri River level drops

Stolen artifacts shatter ancient culture

Stolen from US history: its artifacts

Thieves steal remains from Civil War-era graves

National parks robbed of heritage

Relic thefts ‘huge crime problem’ in U.S. parks

Fleetwood man unearths Civil War relics

Dropping Lake Levels Expose Ancient Artifacts And Looters Have Noticed

Digging Deeper: DNR on Artifact hunting laws

Lake guards warn against artifact collection

New Alabama law could mean finders-keepers for historic artifacts found
underwater

How the Gospel of Judas Emerged

Terrorists raise cash by selling antiquities

Praque: illicit hoard discovered after relic hunter’s death

Sudanese security recover priceless artifacts stolen last year from museum

Archaeologists work to salvage fragments of the giant Buddhas

Stolen Oplontis fresco, recovered in Paris, unveiled in Rome

Ozdogan, M., 1998. Ideology and archaeology in Turkey, In: L. Meskell (ed.), Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, politics, and heritage in the Eastern Meditteranean and Middle East

The Silk Road Unravels

Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center

China and Cultural Property: Who Owns the Past?

Qin, D., 2004. The effects of the antiquities market on archaeological development in China, In: N. Merriman (ed.), Public Archaeology (London: Routledge), pp. 292-300

The Illicit Traffic in Asian Antiquities

Fiskesjo, Magnus, 2010. The Politics of Cultural Heritage, Lee, Ching Kwan and Hsing, You-Tien (eds.) Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. London, Routledge, 2010, Ch. 12, pp. 225-45. ISBN: 9780415491372.

Illicit Antiquities: The Situation in South-East Asia

Archaeological Investigations in Northern Laos: New Contributions to South East Asian Prehistory

Conserving The Past Through Play: Educational Gaming and Anti-Looting Outreach in Cambodia

Heritage Watch International

Say YES to Cambodia’s heritage, our heritage

Report from South East Asia

Saving Cambodia’s Treasures

O’Reilly, Dougald, 2007. Shifting Trends of Heritage Destruction in Cambodia: From Temples to Tombs, Historic Environment, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 12-16

Southeast Asian Archaeology International Newsletter

Elkins, N.T., 2009. Treasure Hunting 101 in America’s Classrooms, Journal of Field Archaeology 34.4: 482-489

Akinsha, K. and Kozlov, G., 1995. Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe’s Art Treasures, Random House

International Scientific Colloquium on the factors impacting underwater cultural heritage in Brussels

Notice of Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee

SAFE in Bulgaria

June 2, 2011. Senta German interviews Ralph Frammolino in SAFE podcasts,

The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Treasure Act: Protecting the Archaeology of England and Wales?

Nicholas, L., 1995. The Rape of Europa, Vintage Books USA Published

The Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation

ICOM’s Red List of Latin American Cultural Objects at Risk

The Antiquities Trade, Museums, Legislation, and Borders: Central America as a Case Study

Reents-Budet, Dorie, 1994. “Collecting Pre-Columbian Art and Preserving the Archaeological Past,” Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classical Period., Durham, NC: Duke University Press

Kirkpatrick, Sidney D., 1992. Lords of Sipan: A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime, New York: William Morrow

Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act

Extension of Import Restrictions on Antiquities From Colombia

American Heritage: Collections, Travel, and Great Writing on History

American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation

Canadian Conservation Institute

Center for Desert Archaeology

Conversation: The Looters Next Door

Coping with Site Looting: Southeastern Perspectives

Drugs, Guns and Dirt

The Trade and Environment Database: Native American Artifact Case Study

The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq

Iraq’s National Museum to open after 8-year closure

Looting Iraq: A Conversation With Museum Director Donny George

Market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008

Opening the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War Baghdad.

Spoils of War: The Antiquities Trade and the Looting of Iraq

The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq

The Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum

The Massacre of Mesopotamian Archaeology: Looting in Iraq Is Out of Control

The Polish contribution to protection of the archaeological heritage in central south Iraq, November 2003 to April 2005

ICOM’s Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk

Iraq War, 2003 Web Archive

Donny George‚ Convocation address on The Looting of the Iraq National Museum at the College Art Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth conference

Final Report on the proceedings of the Third Plenary Session of UNESCO’S INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF IRAQ

Ken Matsumoto, 2004. The State of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage After the Iraq War and the Measures Which Should Be Taken Now: A View from the UNESCO Mission’s Investigations in Iraq (In Japanese), Al-Rafidan: Journal of Western Asiatic Studies. Vol 25, P 43-56

Briefings from Inside and Across Iraq

John Malcolm Russell, 1998. The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennecherib’s Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq, New Haven: Yale University Press

Polk, Milbry and Angela M.H. Schuslter (eds), 2005. The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Treasures of Ancient Mesopotamia, New York: Abrams

ICOM’s Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk

Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria

Robert Bevan , 2004. The Destruction of Memory: Architecture of War, Reaktion Books

A Swiss-British Conference on the Traffic in Artifacts from Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond

Association for the Protection of Afghan Archaeology

Sease, C., 1997. Conservation and the Antiquities Trade, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 36.1, pp. 49-58

The TAY Project

Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1996.

McPhee, J., 1998. The Ransom of Russian Art, Cultural Portrait

Heritage Conservation Advocates

Regional Expert Meeting on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

The U.S. Legal Response to the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage

UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

Wylie, Alison, 1996. Ethical Dilemmas in Archaeological Practice: Looting, Repatriation, Stewardship, and the (Trans)formation of Disciplinary Identity, Perspectives on Science 4:154-194

Zimmerman, L, K. Vitelli and J. Hollowell-Zimmer (eds), 2003. Ethical Issues in Archaeology, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press

Buying, selling, owning the past

Cultural Heritage & Identity

Cultural Heritage Investigations and Repatriations

E_Conservation

Historic Preservation Learning Portal

Is the stealing of cultural objects of others a specific cultural heritage of Europe or is it a universal heritage?

Looting and the Antiquities Market

Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material

Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols

Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization