by Administrator | Jan 20, 2022 | Cultural Heritage
On January 7th, a lawyer for the Attorney General’s Office of the Southern District of New York and a representative from Homeland Security filed a forfeiture action, seeking the seizure of 35 antiquities of Cambodian and Southeast Asian origin from billionaire...
by Administrator | Nov 18, 2021 | Cultural Heritage
Once again, a prominent auction house is taking advantage of French law to sell ancient American artifacts. In addition to pre-Columbian artifacts, the sale also contained several lots of items, many of them sacred items, from the Taino...
by Administrator | Aug 3, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
There are those that say there is no such thing as bad publicity. We beg to differ. Once again Hobby Lobby is in the news with another example of how the company once again purchased and displayed items of questionable origin in its museum. This time it is in...
by Administrator | Oct 20, 2020 | The Art Market
Two antiquities dealers, Erdal Dere and Faisal Khan, were indicted by a New York grand jury for falsifying the provenances of multiple antiquities that were subsequently sold through their New York gallery. They allegedly claimed that the antiquities were...
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...
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