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- Art Theft - Most Wanted Art - Search for the world's most wanted art.
www.saztv.com
- Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich - Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus
www.archaeology.org/online/features/cyprus/index.html
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Treasure Hunt Hits the Web - Georgia parks officials are turning to the Internet in an effort to track a collection of 1,500-year-old Native American artifacts stolen from a South Georgia museum nearly 30 years ago.
www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0802/21kolomoki.html
- Britain Leads Illicit Trade in Rare Books - The Guardian reports that Britain has become the centre for criminal traffick in ancient manuscripts and historic books.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4201560,00.html
- Find Stolen Art - Database aiming to assist UK police in the recovery and return of stolen antiques and to enable auction houses, collectors and dealers to exercise due diligence.
www.findstolenart.com
- Gang Caught with 200,000 Artefacts - Giles Tremlett reports in the Guardian that Spanish police have captured 100 archaeological robbers in an operation that netted a vast haul of antiques up to 5,000 years old.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4464605,00.html
- Help Find Stolen Art - Appeals globally to anyone who can identify and locate the stolen artwork from photos and information on the site.
www.artoffences.com
- Holy Door of the Monastery of St. Anastassios - Human Rights Action pleads with the Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan to return an 11th-century iconic door looted from Cyprus. Includes photograph.
www.hr-action.org/action/kanazawa.html
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) - At University of Cambridge to research and highlight damage caused by looting of archaeological sites. Publishes periodical Culture Without Context. Information on latest news, events, information, legal conventions, resources.
www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/IARC/home.htm
- Kolomoki Mounds State Historic Park - Includes photographs of Native American Kolomoki burial pottery stolen in 1974 from a museum in the State of Georgia, US, with a request for information.
www.geocities.com/kolomokistatepark
- Looting Matters - Studies by Christopher Chippindale and David Gill of the University of Wales Swansea on the material and intellectual consequences of collecting antiquities, with related links.
www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/dg/looting
- Looting Question Bibliography - Hugh Jarvis lists Internet and published resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting.
wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/lootbib.html
- Michel van Rijn - Dutch former art dealer and smuggler who has collaborated with police against the illicit art trade. Includes a 'Swindler's list' of art theft news; synopsis of his book Hot Art and Cold Cash.
www.michelvanrijn.com
- Museum Security Network: Art Crime - News reports of cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire and forgery worldwide.
www.museum-security.org/artcrime.html
- NYTimes.com - Thwarting Art Thieves on a Budget - Discusses problems of art theft during business hours and how museums and other facilities have responded.
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/29/arts/design/29ARTS.html
- Object ID - Site describes rationale, use and contacts for Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to combat theft.
www.object-id.com
- Price of Age - An electronic dissertation on the illicit trade of antiquities by Andrew Cranwell.
www.museum-security.org/cranwell/index.html
- Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft - Librarian provides a bibliography and list of Internet resources on theft of antiquities.
home.earthlink.net/~robbinsls/theft
- Stolen Antiquities from Corinth Return to Greece - The Hellenic Ministry of Culture rejoices in the recovery of the priceless collection of artifacts stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth in 1990. Illustrated catalogue.
www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21104m/e211dm07.html
- Stolen Property or Finders Keepers? - Dede Tisone-Bartels provides teacher's resources for considering the true ownership of works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world.
home.att.net/~tisone/problem.htm
- Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh - Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite.
www.archaeology.org/online/features/nineveh/index.html
- Swiss Recover 10,000 Stolen Antiquities - Archaeology magazine feature article by Andrew Slayman on one of the largest recoveries of stolen art treasures.
www.archaeology.org/online/features/geneva/index.html
- The Art Loss Register - Operates a permanent international database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables, to assist law enforcement agencies in the battle against art theft.
www.artloss.com
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