Hot this week: the US returns items from Egypt
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Americas
Christie’s Postpones Basquiat Sale After Suit Alleges Some Works Are Fakes
9 March 2014, The Wall Street Journal
Rockwell painting stolen from Maspeth recovered (NYC)
14 March 2014, Times Ledger
Getty Villa’s ‘Heaven and Earth’ a blockbuster show of Byzantium art (Meant to signify new-found trust between Getty and Greece following Marion True scandal)
14 March 2014, Los Angeles Times
Delaware lawyer, firm caught up in tale of lost treasure
16 March 2014, Delaware Online
Origin of Gold Country coins remains a mystery
11 March 2014, Los Angeles Times
El museo de Astra continúa siendo saqueado y dañado
13 March, 2014, Patagónico
Missing Cuban artworks valued at close to $1.5 million
12 Mach 2014, CNN
Extension of Import Restrictions on Archaeological and Ecclesiastical Ethnological Materials from Honduras
12 March 2014, Federal Register
South and East Asia
NGA idol comment stirs ire in India
10 March 2014, The Australian
Relic theft at temple in capital (Cambodia)
12 March 2014, The Phnom Penh Post
Relic Hunt Continues (Cambodia)
13 March 2014, The Phnom Penh Post
Koreans appeal to White House for return of ‘royal seals’
14 March 2014, Global Post
Africa
Customs hands over N2.8m seized antiquities in Seme to NCMM (Nigeria)
16 March 2014
Smuggled Egyptian antiquities to be returned from U.S.
12 March, Reuters
Egypt: Antiquities Minister Meets U.S. Officials
13 March 2014, All Africa
Egypt Asks U.S. to Impose Sharp Curbs on Importing of Antiquities
14 March 2014, New York Times
In pictures: Stolen Egyptian artefacts recovered from the US
16 March 2014, Ahram Online
Oceania and Australia
Book proves Tweed man’s $50m Cezanne painting is real
10 March 2014, My Daily News
Mayor of Easter Island begins campaign for the return of moai statues (Spanish)
14 March 2014, Pura Noticia
West Asia
Authorities Confiscate Stolen Archaeological Artifacts in Palmyra
10 March 2014, Fars News
Leiden Researchers Robbed of Syrian Artifacts
11 March 2014, NL Times
Europe
Antiquities dealers liven up the London art scene
7 March 2014, Financial Times
German archaeologist suggests British Museum’s Warren Cup could be forgery
12 March 2014, The Guardian
Newly-discovered Anglo-Saxon village ‘stripped of valuable artefacts by thieves’ (UK)
12 March 2014, The Telegraph
Rendlesham: Nighthawks may have raided Saxon treasure at Suffolk’s ‘village of the kings’ (UK)
11 March 2014, Ipswich Star
BBC art experts make mistake over ‘Constable’
16 March 2014, Telegraph
Altarpiece by Nolde stolen from Danish church
12 March 2014, The Art Newspaper
In Other News
Ex-Sidley Partner’s Slide Into Receipt Scam Detailed (white-collar crimes of an art lawyer)
13 March 2014, The American Lawyer