CPAC: Belize and Bulgaria

A meeting of the US Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) will be taking place in November to consider possible MOUs with Belize and Bulgaria [formal notice].

Bulgaria is "seeking import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material". The flow of archaeological material from Bulgaria has been a matter of note on LM.

Some recent stories and reports (not all on LM):

• Bulgarian objects to be returned from Canada. 21000 objects reported to have been seized in Montreal
• The scale of looting in Bulgaria. 
• Looting in Bulgaria. 
• Bulgaria as a source for recently surfaced coins. Including the shipping of 1 metric tonne of material through Frankfurt.
• Organized crime in Bulgaria: markets and trends. Chapter 5: The antiquities trade: dealers, traffickers, and connoisseurs. Includes a discussion of coins.