Tag: looting

International law enforcement agencies are meeting in Siem Reap to discuss ways to combat the illicit trade in stolen Cambodian ...

With stories like these, one gets the impression that there is a lot of undiscovered archaeological potential in the Philippine ...

PM is an afternoon radio news show in Australia. I think the title says it all: it's alarming to learn ...

4 men are arrested near the Vietnam-China border for smuggling artefacts. The article does not specify the exact kinds of ...

A dream leads an Indonesian man to unearth a one-metre tall statue of Brahma in East Java, leading to frenzied ...

Indonesian farmers turn to treasue hunting in times of drought to raise money, oblivious to the archaeological value of the ...

A sad story about how ancient Hindu temples have been pillaged in Indonesa by private collectors.

New archaeological finds in Java are being looted by local villagers, with reports of hundreds of kilogrammes of gold being ...

Looting on archaeological sites for prehistoric beads for resale leads to a clampdown on excavations. Remember: if you're in the ...

By far, this got the most hits in terms of news, probably because someone from the first world was actually ...