Security tightened at contruction site after looting reports
The Philippine National Museum in Cebu steps up security at a construction site in Cebu after reports of looting. Security ...
Tag: looting
The act of looting or stealing during a disturbance is a form of cultural theft. Looted artifacts often become part of the antiquities trade in Southeast Asia. In some cases, artifacts whose provenance can be established are repatriated to their home countries.
Seized Maitum artefacts may represent another tribe
Stylistic differences indicate that the anthropomorphic jars that were seized earlier as part of an illegal haul in Maitum may ...
Remembering Roxanna Brown
The UCLA International Institute posts a memorial for Roxanna Brown, the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum who died ...
Smuggled Ban Chiang loot raises questions on the ethics of art
The case of the smuggled Ban Chiang artefacts unearthed earlier this month in California has far-reaching consequences for museums and ...
Ban Chiang case unsettles museums in US
The repercussions from the smuggled Ban Chiang artifacts case in California have got museums around the US keeping a close ...
Tax evasion scheme proves costly for Southeast Asian Archaeology
The New York Times carries an article walking about how the recent antiquities smuggling racket (see here, here and here) ...
Thailand looking into looted Ban Chiang artifacts
Thailand is following up on the looted artefacts from Ban Chiang, found in the collections of four Californian museums. Ban ...
UC Berkeley Art Museum’s stolen Ban Chiang artefacts
After four museums were investigated for holding looted artefacts - among them artefacts from Ban Chiang, Thailand - the UC ...
Southeast Asian artefacts turn up in Californian museum raid
Over in the US, four museums in California are being investigated over possession of artefacts that were allegedly illegally exported ...
Could smuggled antiquities be on sale on eBay?
Could Philippine antiquities by sold off illegally on eBay? Very recently, the Greco Shipwreck Artifact Auction was a 2,500 lot ...
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