Egypt
- Glasgow Team Gets £1m Grant To Study Illegal Trade In Antiquities
The Guardian, UK Every year, artefacts and antiquities of cultural significance are looted and smuggled around the world, often turning up in private collections or even museums. Last year, a number of objects were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...
- German Man Hopes To Sailreed Raft Across Atlantic
http://tinyurl.com/22qrlk (newsday.com) Dominique Gorlitz, 40, a former school teacher from Chemnitz, Germany, says the two-month journey he and 11 others will make on 41-foot-long craft will prove people could have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean...
- Un Approve Draft Resolution On Artifacts
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=77392 "Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis called on the United Nations yesterday to adopt a resolution that antiquities be returned to their country of origin . . . . 'The illegal trade of antiquities...
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com) "Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum...
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More on world antiquities trade issues
http://tinyurl.com/lj4lp (New York Times)
More about the problems in the museum world regarding the aquisition of ancient artefacts: "Archaeologists and museum directors gathered in Manhattan this week to try to find common ground on the collecting of ancient art, an issue that has pitted museums and scholars against each other and raised concerns about the illegal trade in antiquities."
More about the problems in the museum world regarding the aquisition of ancient artefacts: "Archaeologists and museum directors gathered in Manhattan this week to try to find common ground on the collecting of ancient art, an issue that has pitted museums and scholars against each other and raised concerns about the illegal trade in antiquities."
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- Glasgow Team Gets £1m Grant To Study Illegal Trade In Antiquities
The Guardian, UK Every year, artefacts and antiquities of cultural significance are looted and smuggled around the world, often turning up in private collections or even museums. Last year, a number of objects were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...
- German Man Hopes To Sailreed Raft Across Atlantic
http://tinyurl.com/22qrlk (newsday.com) Dominique Gorlitz, 40, a former school teacher from Chemnitz, Germany, says the two-month journey he and 11 others will make on 41-foot-long craft will prove people could have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean...
- Un Approve Draft Resolution On Artifacts
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=77392 "Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis called on the United Nations yesterday to adopt a resolution that antiquities be returned to their country of origin . . . . 'The illegal trade of antiquities...
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com) "Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum...