Looting Matters: Are Import Restrictions on Italian Antiquities Working?
Issues relating to the CPAC review of the MOU with Italy.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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A Roman Portrait to be Returned to Italy from New Zealand
A Roman marble portrait dating to the Antonine period will be returned to Italy [ press release ]. The female head was acquired by the Class...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien...
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Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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Hi David, can you point me to the source for the 10% reduction figure? Is there a year-by-year chart? I had thought the reduction was far more dramatic, down to 37 from 1000 in the mid1990s according to the story last year that you noted was itself an old one.
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