March 10, 2021
…museum community,[1] the United States and Egypt entered into a Memorandum of Understanding restricting import of undocumented Egyptian antiquities and ethnographic objects, including the possessions of Egypt’s persecuted Christian and…
October 30, 2021
…CINOA; The antiquities or transaction participants are not linked to a conflict zone.” (p.6) “The art market would welcome actual data on money laundering transactions involving antiquities that is known…
July 30, 2020
…http://www.washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15257:destruction-looting-of-antiquities-robs-nations-of-their-heritage-bankrolls-terrorism&catid=1557&Itemid=428 (reposted on the Antiquities Coalition’s website: https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/ac-news/destruction-looting-of-antiquities-robs-nations-of-their-heritage-bankrolls-terrorism/); Think Tank, Antiquities Coalition, https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/cultural-heritage-think-tank/ [xi] RAND, note 5. [xii] Jim Michaels, Demand still high for ISIL’s stolen antiquities from Palmyra, elsewhere,…
May 17, 2021
…Page. https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/egypt-and-sudan/circulating-artefacts/registration-form [57] The Times, David Sanderson, High-Tech Hunt for Looted Antiquities, 26 March 2020. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hi-tech-hunt-for-looted-antiquities-9lzd8mdb0 [58] Artnet, Sarah Cascone, Egypt Will Sue Christie’s Over the $6 Million Sale of…
January 19, 2022
…the future of his anti-antiquities unit, headed by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, is a hot topic in New York. In December 2021, the antiquities trafficking unit settled its case…
May 17, 2021
…the trade functioned between 1880-1930. See Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4.vol.8, Fredrik Hagen and Kim Ryholt: The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880-1930. The H.O. Lange Papers, December 2015. https://www.royalacademy.dk/en/Publikationer/Scientia-Danica/Series-H4/H4_8_The-Antiquities-Trade-in-Egypt…
April 9, 2018
…Jewish Temples in Egypt while the remaining are in the possession of the Egyptian Jewish Community,” and expressly stating that those objects are registered as Egyptian Antiquities and are therefore…
July 19, 2020
…Persian No art, antiquities, or coinage Hebrew No art, antiquities, or coinage Greek No art, antiquities, or coinage Bulgarian No art, antiquities, or coinage Russian No art, antiquities, or coinage…
September 19, 2022
…District Attorney’s office acknowledges that it was Lotfi who tipped them off on its highest profile antiquities case, the Metropolitan Museum’s gold Egyptian sarcophagus. However, they assert that Lotfi attempted…
January 10, 2021
…apparently unaware that a recent RAND Corporation analysis had debunked the Antiquities Coalition and others’ claims regarding terrorist marketing of antiquities[6] as well as claims by related organization ATHAR regarding…