by Administrator | Feb 9, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
Craft retailer Hobby Lobby has amended its complaint against Christie’s to include the alleged prior owner of a cuneiform tablet dating from approximately 1600 BCE and bearing an inscription with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In May of last year, Hobby Lobby...
by Administrator | Nov 17, 2020 | Cultural Heritage
Earlier this month, the French Senate unanimously voted to return 27 artifacts to Benin and Senegal within a year. The majority of these 27 items were taken from the Abomey palace in present day Benin by French forces during the 19thcentury. This is the first step...
by Administrator | Sep 15, 2020 | Cultural Heritage
The Iraqi government is negotiating with the Museum of the Bible for the return of thousands of Iraqi antiquities that were brought into the United States by the Green family—antiquities whose provenance is shaky at best. In 2017, the United States...
by Administrator | Sep 8, 2020 | Cultural Heritage
On September 2, Egypt’s House of Representatives amended law #177. The original law became effective in 1983 and was designed to protect Egypt’s antiquities. The new amendment makes it a crime for anyone who climbs up antiquities or visits...
by Administrator | Aug 26, 2020 | Cultural Heritage
Douglas Latchford was charming. He presented himself as the “rescuer” of Cambodia’s heritage. He was respected by museums across the world for his donations of Cambodian cultural heritage and the scholarship he had so meticulously collected on...
by Administrator | Jun 10, 2015 | Cultural Heritage
Earlier today three terrorists, one of which was a suicide bomber, were stopped at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt. The reports are extremely preliminary at this point. Apparently two of the three were killed by guards before they could enter...
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