Illicit antiquities and international litigation – the Turkish experience

Lydian Treasure

The Antiquities Market

Material Consequences of Contemporary Classical Collecting 

Turkey to act on Bubon bronzes

ARTSBEAT; Turkey Pressing Case on Looted Antiquities

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

Treasure hunt: Digging for trouble

Thieves steal remains from Civil War-era graves

National parks robbed of heritage

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

Five indicted for theft of Missouri River artifacts

More are sentenced in Four Corners artifacts case

Fleetwood man unearths Civil War relics

Dropping Lake Levels Expose Ancient Artifacts And Looters Have Noticed

Antiquities Dealer Gets Home Detention, Fines for Illegally Dealing in Indian Artifacts

How the Gospel of Judas Emerged

Terrorists raise cash by selling antiquities

Davis, Tess, 2011. Supply and demand: exposing the illicit trade in Cambodian antiquities through a study of Sotheby’s auction house, Crime, Law and Social Change, Volume 56, Number 2. pp. 155-174

Italy unveils returned Euphronius vase

Collector Returns Art Italy Says Was Looted

Ancient mask from Alaska ghost village returned to descendants more than a
century later

Praque: illicit hoard discovered after relic hunter’s death

From Sicily, to Templesman, to UVa Museum, back to Sicily

Sudanese security recover priceless artifacts stolen last year from museum

United States Customs officials returned 26 pieces of pre-Columbian pottery and stone carvings to the Guatemalan government.

Italian Police Uncover Art Theft Ring

Looted Peru Headdress Recovered in London

Caretaker Faces Charges in Greek Artifacts Case

Four Men Arrested in Baghdad

Sting operation halts illegal sales of ancient artifacts

Stolen Oplontis fresco, recovered in Paris, unveiled in Rome

The Illicit Traffic in Asian Antiquities

Report from South East Asia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iraq War, 2003 Web Archive

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Bator, 1983. The International Trade in Art, University of Chicago Press

ICOM’s Red List of Cambodian Antiquities at Risk

Publishing Unprovenanced Artifacts: Further Observations

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

Lynott, Mark J. and Alison Wylie (eds), 2001. Ethics in American Archaeology, Washington DC: Society for American Archaeology

Leiboff, Marett, 1996. Treasure, objects and items: the legal protection of the archaeological heritage in England, Law in Context, Vol. 14, No. 2. Chanock, M. and Simpson, C. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, pp. 91-114

Beyond the Nationalist-Internationalist Polarization in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage: A Response to Professor Merryman

Buying, selling, owning the past

Illicit Antiquities Research Centre ( IARC )

Illicit Antiquities Trade: Source, Transit, Market, Mafia

International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property

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

Looting and Theft of Cultural Property: Are We Making Progress?

Looting Matters Blog

Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material

Survey: Addicts looters of U.S. archaeological sites

The “Looting Question” Bibliography

The Art of Looting

The International Art Trade and the Ethics of Collecting

The Online Sales of Antiquities

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling

The Trade in Stolen Antiquities

Art Theft Central

Ethics, E-Commerce, and the Future of the Past. SAA Bulletin 18.

INTERPOL’s Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Stolen Works of Art

Mackenzie, S.R.M. , 2005. Law, Regulation, and the Illicit Antiquities Market, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 45, pp. 249-268

Saving History for the Public

The Fig and The Spade: Countering the Deceptions of Treasure Hunters

On-Line Auctions: A New Venue for the Antiquities Market

The Antiquities Trade – Dealers, Traffickers, Connoisseurs, in Organized Crime in Bulgaria: Markets and Trends (Center for the Study of Democracy)

The Coin Market versus the Numismatist, Archaeologist, and Art Historian. Journal of Field Archaeology 4.2 (1977): 247-258 [via JSTOR]

Why Coins Matter: Trafficking in Undocumented and Illegally Exported Ancient Coins in the North American Marketplace. SAFE Feature.

Acar, Ö and M. Kaylan, 1990. The Turkish Connection: An Investigative Report on the Smuggling of Classical Antiquities, The Connoisseur 220: 130-137

Dietrich, R., 2002. Cultural Property on the Move – Legally, Illegally, International Journal of Cultural Property 11.2: 294-304

Fielder, W., 1993. Art Robbery and the Protection of Cultural Property in Public International Law, in T. Hackens and G. Moucharte (eds.), Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress, Brussels, Septmember 8th-13th, 1991 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993)

Gill, D.W.J., 2007. Review of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (2006) and Who Owns Objects? The Ethics and Politics of Collecting Cultural Artefacts (2006), Journal of Field Archaeology 32: 103-106

Kersel, M.M., 2006. From the Ground to the Buyer: A Market Analysis of the Trade in Illegal Antiquities, in N. Brodie, M.M. Kersel, C. Luke, and K. Walker Tubb (eds.), Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (Gainesville: University Press of Florida)

Numismatics and the Antiquities Trade. The Celator (May): 25-28.

Antiquities Collecting and the Looting of Archaeological Sites