October 31, 2023
…Treasure, Central Asia: Tajikistan: Takht-i Kuwad, 5thC BC-4thC BC, Reg. No. 113944001. © The Trustees of the British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. In August 2023, Gradel contacted the Telegraph…
August 5, 2024
…than 20 years over a unique complex of Native American earthworks has ended, with an Ohio Supreme Court decision in 2023 and a negotiated settlement agreement announced August 1, 2024….
September 1, 2023
…let alone commodities produced for a market and priced by supply and demand. The commemorative heads represented powerful ancestors – they were treated as if they were living persons on…
June 18, 2023
Updated July 2, 2023. The People’s Republic of China voted on June 30, 2023 to deny U.S. re-entry to UNESCO membership, Just weeks before, China had pressured the U.S. State…
April 4, 2022
…it appears that claim was a bargaining ploy for a better deal from the Chinese development companies. Archaeologist Qadir Temori on site. Credit Brent Huffman, www.Saving Mes Aynak.com. The Taliban’s…
January 7, 2020
…land confiscation in Mardin, Syriac Christians see little hope of reviving their communities. Jewish communities in Turkey Turkish Jews, late Ottoman era. Wikimedia Commons. For centuries, Ottoman Turkey was a…
October 2, 2021
…14, 2021, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/former-afghan-police-women-being-killed-forced-into-hiding-after-taliban-takeover [13] Taliban hang body in public,: signal return to past tactics, PBS, September 25, 2021, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/taliban-hang-body-in-public-signal-return-to-past-tactics [14] The Committee for Cultural Policy (CCP) is an educational and…
July 28, 2022
…work accomplished in Libya since 2017 has been done instead by committed local officials and heritage specialists who command the respect of the communities where sites are located. This has…
July 8, 2020
…vigorously believing strongly in its mission to help protect the cultural heritage of mankind and responding to the demands of foreign states. This is commendable provided the Department complies with…
January 10, 2021
…Author Diliff. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Wikimedia Commons. The day of the bill’s final passage, a New York Times article repeated the Antiquities Coalition’s allegations[5], its author…