Cultural Heritage
Tomb-Robbing Has Become A Very Big Business In China
With prices for some Chinese antiquities reaching into the tens of millions of dollars, a flood of amateur and professional thieves looking to get rich quick has hit China’s countryside. While accurate figures are difficult to come by, the looting has resulted in the permanent destruction of numerous Chinese cultural heritage sites.
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AUC hands over to Egypt 5,000 artifacts from past archaeological excavations
“Though we legally possessed these artifacts and scrupulously preserved and protected them over so many years, we took the initiative to transfer these important antiquities to the Ministry of Antiquities because we felt that this should be their rightful home.”
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Where Have All Of Ukraine’s Lenin Statues Gone?
Two years ago, the statues were banned by governmental decree. Since then, “some statues have been turned into public works of art, some have simply ended up in shop windows and one has even been remade into an effigy of Darth Vader.”
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Minister calls Ohio university to return missing artifacts
Bowling Green University is asked to return stolen bits of the Zeugma mosaics
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Rare Codex Illustrating Colonial Life In Peru Is Being Returned From Spain (Sort Of)
The Spanish Ministry of Culture had declared that the work” – the 18th-century Codex Trujillo, also called the Codex Martínez Compañón – “is an important piece of Spanish heritage, preventing its export to Peru following its sale at auction to the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). The move provoked an uproar in the Latin […]
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Syrian Refugees To Be Trained To Rebuild Palmyra
The World Monuments Fund is launching a £500,000 scheme to train Syrian refugees living in and around the Zaatari camp on the Jordanian border in traditional stone masonry. The aim is to develop skills so that cultural heritage sites that have been caught in crossfire or destroyed by [ISIS] can be rebuilt once peace is […]
Read moreDozens of Māori and Moriori Remains Return to New Zealand from European Museums
“Übersee-Museum Bremen and three other institutions are repatriating 59 Moriori and Māori ancestral remains”
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West Bank Site/Museum Must Deal With All Religions And Cultures, Per Israeli Supreme Court
Tourists at Tel Shiloh face ‘dissonance’, [the plaintiffs’ lawyer] says, because labels in Hebrew and English primarily underscore the Jewish biblical history about Israelites and the Tabernacle, while many of the ancient buildings and artefacts on di…
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The Treasures of Timbuktu
Preventing a total cultural catastrophe
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