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General
Crime of culture: American Animals and the history of rare book heists
(17 September 2018; The Conversation)
Africa
A relief of king Amenhotep I recovered from London (Egypt, USA)
(21 September 2018; Ahram Online)
Americas
Calgary police ask for help in $500,000 art gallery heist (Canada)
(19 September 2018; CBC)
¿Dónde están las otras piezas arqueológicas de Rapa Nui?: Al menos 20 moais fueron sacados de la isla y llevados a diferentes partes del mundo (Where are Rapa Nui’s other archaeological pieces? More than 20 moai were looted from the island and taken to different parts of the world; Ecuador)
(17 September 2018; La Tercera)
“Museo” revisits Mexico’s notorious museum robbery (Mexico)
(21 September 2018; The Economist)
Peru: Ministry Displays Recovered Stolen Cultural Pieces (Peru, Germany)
(21 September 2018; Telesur)
The Science of Uncovering Forged Paintings (USA)
(17 September 2018; Town and Country)
GlobalXplorer Selected for Blockchain Accelerator Program (USA)
(20 September 2018; Crypto Block Wire)
Remembering when the ‘Mona Lisa of the ceramics world’ was stolen from the Everson Museum (USA)
(20 September 2018; Syracuse.com)
2 charged with thefts from New Jersey submarine museum (USA)
(21 September 2018; Republican American)
How Boston can still solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner case — before it’s too late (USA)
(16 September 2018; The Boston Globe)
New Podcast Opens Up the Cold Case of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Heist (USA)
(17 September 2018; Mental Floss)
Robaron corona de oro de la Virgen del Valle en iglesia de La Guaira (Gold crown of the Virgen del Valle stolen from La Guaira church; Venezuela)
(18 September 2018; Noticia al Día)
Europe
Stolen church bell in north recovered (Cyprus)
(17 September 2018; Cyprus Mail)
Stolen icon of St George now back in Cyprus (Cyprus, Switzerland)
(20 September 2018; Cyprus Mail)
Red tape is stifling German auctions (Germany)
(17 September 2018; The Art Newspaper)
How One of Hitler’s Favorite Works of Art Got Stolen—Twice (Germany)
(21 September 2018; The Daily Beast)
Greek Orthodox Church Attempting to Reclaim Centuries-Old Manuscripts in U.S. Collections (Greece, USA)
(17 September 2018; The Pappas Post)
Police uncover illegal excavation for antiquities in northern Greece (Greece)
(19 September 2018; eKathimerini)
“Hay que acabar con los saqueos y expolios arqueológicos en La Palma” (We must put an end to the looting and exploitation of archaeology in La Palma; Spain)
(18 September 2018; La Palma Ahora)
Expolio y exportación ilícita de piezas arqueológicas. Un increible caso español (Spain)
(19 September 2018; Las Nueve Musas)
El patrimonio histórico de varios siglos en España, bajo la amenaza de los cazatesoros (Centuries of historical heritage in Spain under threat from treasurehunters; Spain)
(22 September 2019; La Nación)
Secrets of a master forger … fake or fortune? (UK)
(19 September 2018; The West Sussex County Times)
Thieves steal £40,000 worth of lead from North Lincolnshire church (UK)
(21 September 2018; Grimsby Telegraph)
Royal Academy asks tribal leaders to bless ‘stolen’ treasures in culturally sensitive exhibition (UK, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti)
(21 September 2018; The Telegraph)
Oceania
Dark web listing of stolen Lindauer painting a scam, police say (New Zealand)
(22 September 2018; New Zealand Herald)
South and East Asia
Chinese residents flock to dig ‘ancient silver coins’ in the debris of collapsed houses after typhoon Mangkhut left (China)
(18 September 2018; The Daily Mail)
Chinese tomb raiders dug underground tunnels to steal priceless objects from 3,000-year-old Yin Xu royal site (China)
(19 September 2018; South China Morning Post)
HC laments temple priests’ apathy to theft of idols (India)
(18 September 2018; Business Standard)
Fisherman finds two stolen idols from Kanchi lake (India)
(19 September 2018; The Times of India)
Police unearth interstate idol theft racket (India)
(19 September 2018; United News of India)
Unesco estimated that India lost 50,000 artefacts till 1989 … our biggest victory has been the narrative war’ (India)
(19 September 2018; The Times of India)
India’s ancient treasures: Lost and found, but still inaccessible (India)
(20 September 2018; The Statesman)
UoP fails to find thieves who stole Gandhara relic (Pakistan)
(17 September 2018; The Express Tribune)
Late National Artist’s son says 113 paintings worth Bt300 million have gone missing (Thailand)
(19 September 2018; The Nation)
West and Central Asia
FBI director meets with Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun (Lebanon, USA)
(22 September 2018; Lebanese Examiner)
Mending scars through heritage: Geologist who fought IS helps save Mosul’s antiquities (Syria)
(21 September 2018; The New Arab)
In Other News
Chinese art and antiquities spared from Trump’s tariffs (China, USA)
(18 September 2018; The Art Newspaper)
Govt Hands Over Custody Of Stolen Treasure ‘Back To Thief’: Scholar (India)
(19 September 2018; Kashmir Observer)
Scientists’ dismay as space rock from Skye sold on eBay (UK)
(17 September 2018; Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter)
Uncomfortable Art Tours’ Question Colonialist Biases in London-Area Museum (UK)
(21 September 2018; Next City)