San Antonio Museum of Art repatriates nine antiquities to Italy – The Art Newspaper
The San Antonio Museum of Art (Sama) has repatriated nine antiquities to Italy, eight of which were identified through photographs ...
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Authorities in New York return antiquities valued at $3m to Greece – The Art Newspaper
The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has facilitated the return of 29 antiquities, collectively valued at $3m, to ...
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Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returns antiquities worth a total of $500,000 to Mexico
On 22 November, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of nearly $500,000 worth of antiquities to Mexico. The ...
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US authorities return antiquities valued at $10m to India
This week, US federal officials and representatives of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returned an enormous cache of 1,440 antiquities ...
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US officials return antiquities looted from Iraq Museum in 2003
Investigators in New York have returned seven Mesopotamian and Neo-Babylonian seals to Iraq, nearly 20 years after they were stolen ...
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American billionaire’s Cycladic antiquities collection unveiled in Athens as Greece and Metropolitan Museum of Art reach agreement
A collection of important Cycladic antiquities shared between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Greek government ...
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Disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison by Indian court
The Indian American art dealer Subhash Kapoor has received a ten-year prison sentence from a court in Tamil Nadu, southern ...
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Wanted in the US, Lebanese antiquities collector maintains his innocence, says his ‘big mistake’ was trusting New York art crime official
Lebanese dealer and collector Georges Lotfi, wanted in the United States amid allegations of trafficking looted antiquities, has firmly denied ...
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British tourist’s 15-year prison sentence for antiquities smuggling overturned by Iraqi appeals court
After spending six and a half weeks in Baghdad’s notorious Rusafa prison on charges of antiquities smuggling, retired British geologist ...
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Antiquities trafficking case escalates as Louvre Abu Dhabi joins civil action and Swiss dealer files criminal complaint
The case of possible trafficking of Egyptian antiquities, which has captured widespread media attention since the indictment of former Louvre ...
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