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The Lessons of Palmyra: Iconoclasm in the era of Clickbait
Last December I was invited to Harvard to participate in a round table on ISIS and iconoclasm. The event, organized by archaeologist Bastien Varoutsikos and sponsored by Harvard’s Standing Committee on...
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The Missing Link: Subhash Kapoor’s Suppliers in India Are (Finally) Getting...
Update September 2016: Indian media report that a temple thief who worked for Deena Dayalan has been accused of murdering a fellow thief after a dispute over 13 idols they took from a temple in 2005....
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The End of the Beginning: NGA Returns Kushan Buddha and Two Kapoor Objects
On Monday, the National Gallery of Australia returned three more antiquities to India in light of evidence – much of it first made public here – that they had been stolen from temples or...
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UPDATED > Inside the ISIS Looting Operation: U.S. Lawsuit Reveals Terror...
A civil lawsuit filed today by the U.S. government sheds startling new light on the brutality of the Syrian looting operations of the Islamic State. The lawsuit seeks the forfeiture of four looted...
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UPDATED > Manhattan Dealer Nancy Wiener Arrested: Criminal Complaint Alleges...
Antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener was arrested Wednesday morning in Manhattan and charged with conspiring with international smuggling networks to buy, smuggle, launder and sell millions of dollars worth...
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UPDATED > Help Wanted: We’re Tracking Down Objects Sold By Nancy and Doris...
In the wake of the arrest of the Manhattan antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener, we’re teaming up with our friends at the India Pride Project to track down the ancient objects she and her mother Doris...
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Hobby Lobby’s Legal Expert Speaks: “I can’t rule out…they used my advice to...
In July 2010, Steve Green, president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, travelled to the United Arab Emirates to inspect a massive hoard of ancient artifacts. A year earlier, Green and his...
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The Sidon Bull’s Head: Court Record Documents a Journey Through the Illicit...
A remarkable document filed with New York’s Supreme Court on Friday reconstructs the journey of an ancient sculpture of a bull’s head from its theft during the Lebanese civil war through the shadowy...
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UPDATED > USA vs One Ancient Mosaic: A Looted Syrian Masterpiece in Los Angeles
Rampant looting across Syria during its prolonged civil war has been well documented through satellite imagery and on the ground reports, but evidence that the looted antiquities are emerging in the...
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