January 21, 2020
…Victim in Civil War, National Geographic, January 30, 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/syria-temple-ain-dara-destroyed-archaeology/ [6] The AAMD’s commentary on the Turkish request warns that a broad, non-specific Designated List would be nothing more than…
March 27, 2021
…grandparents lived there [the great Armenian composer Soghomon Soghomonian, who was ordained as Komitas], Aram Khachaturian [a major Soviet composer whose peasant parents were from Nakhichevan] and almost nothing else….
April 15, 2021
…See https://www.basilinna.com/insights/press-release-edelman-and-basilinna-partner-to-offer-integrated-china-and-middle-east-focused-public-affairs-and-communications-services (last visited March 29, 2021). [9] Aninika Backe, Interrelations in the Protection of Cultural Property—The American Way, Coins Weekly (May 10, 2017)[9] available at https://coinsweekly.com/interrelations-in-the-protection-of-cultural-property-the-american-way/ (last visited March…
October 4, 2022
…are made of metal are actually not bronze, but an amalgamation most closely resembling brass. [2] Stolen Artifacts: Oba of Benin disowns ‘impostors’, Premium Times, May 11, 2021, https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/south-south-regional/460954-stolen-artifacts-oba-of-benin-disowns-impostors.html [3]…
May 1, 2019
…including official findings of the review committee published August 20, 2003 and Bishop Museum position paper of June 30, 2004., http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/nagpraforbesafterreview.html [4] NAGPRA National Review Committee Meeting In St. Paul,…
June 27, 2018
…as community leaders as well as cultural centers, the museum initially partnered with multiple relief organizations to help support over 20 mission trips bringing supplies to all 77 communities in…
September 23, 2024
Committee for Cultural Policy and Global Heritage Alliance – Written Testimony submitted to Cultural Property Advisory Committee, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, on the Republic…
September 29, 2022
“Cultural heritage faces more significant threats right now than ever before, from economic development to climate change. But the most serious threat to heritage comes from autocratic governments ready to…
March 7, 2022
…it is important to challenge official reports from public bodies, Linked In article, February 2022 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-important-challenge-official-reports-from-public-ivan-macquisten?trk=publicprofilearticleview [3] Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate, “The Art Industry and U.S. Policies…
March 29, 2013
…source country museums rather than actual stolen items. [2] Sotheby’s Press Release, Paris, March 23, 2013, http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/BID/2393700070x0x648022/f008ec5d-523a-4d94-bc77-b0da847c4210/648022.pdf [3] Donna Yates, http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/, and Fabricio Alfredo Valencia Gibaja, http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/24634/el-trafico-ilicito-de-bienes-culturales-en-el-peru.) Both last visited…