October 23, 2017
…objects be of cultural significance, imposing blanket embargos on nearly all cultural property coming from a particular State Party. [back to top] What is the Cultural Property Advisory Committee? In…
February 19, 2020
…continue By OnTungC, https://www.instagram.com/ontungc/ While demonstrations may be smaller as a result of concerns over spreading Coronavirus, Hong Kong residents still gather in protest almost daily, albeit in smaller numbers,…
September 5, 2021
…sure of who they are and so comfortable in their Islamic identity that they can continue practices that are traditional within their own communities without worrying that they are straying…
February 24, 2023
…Museum Directors, July 6, 2022, 1. [8] The State of Illicit Trade and Looting of Libyan Antiquities, 2011–2020, AM. SOC’Y OVERSEAS RESEARCH (Dec. 31, 2020), https://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CHI-Report_Libya-IllicitTrafficking_Full_Compressed_2021-03-25.pdf. [9] Id. at 9….
April 25, 2024
…Advisory Committee (CPAC) review or public comment, as is required by the Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983 (CPIA). This is just the first of two successful steps taken by…
September 22, 2018
…course. Just as 19th century Western consumers acquired Chinese decorative arts for their pleasure and ancient examples of China’s culture for their growing museums, contemporary Chinese buyers are doing the…
November 19, 2020
…a new national story,” a rewritten history casting the Mongol achievements as Han Chinese. In preparation for their new planned opening date in 2024, the museum is arranging for loaned…
May 29, 2021
…will be housed in an open-source semantic database, available on-line (with more sensitive data shielded). Photo by Zangaki, No. 1012, wall relief from Luxor, private collection. As a concept, the…
May 30, 2021
…at obelisk. (A new inscription at the base of the obelisk refers to the Egyptian people’s “freedom and steadfastness” achieved by the “June 30th [2013] revolution,” a military crackdown during…
July 31, 2019
…press release image of seized items. Europol. Pandora II was a two-month, nineteen-country marathon search and seizure effort that sought to capture antiquities coming into Europe from North Africa and…