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Egypt Takes the Lead to Combat Looting

By |February 25th, 2015|Our Voices|

Egypt Takes the Lead to Combat Looting Antiquities Coalition Blog 25 February 2015

SCA press release (9-2-2015): The Arab Republic of Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities Organizes an International Conference Next May to Face the Attempts of Tempering with Cultural Heritage

By |February 20th, 2015|Cultural Racketeering|

SCA press release (9-2-2015) "The Ministry of Antiquities Organizes an International Conference next May to face the attempts of tempering with cultural heritage. The Minister of [...]

United Nations Takes a Stand on Cultural Racketeering

By |February 17th, 2015|Cultural Cleansing, Cultural Racketeering, Our Voices|

United Nations Takes a Stand on Cultural Racketeering Antiquities Coalition Blog 16 February 2015

Europol Seizes Hundreds of Smuggled Ancient Egyptian Artifacts in Europe

By |January 29th, 2015|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Europol Seizes Hundreds of Smuggled Ancient Egyptian Artifacts in Europe Rany Mostafa The Cairo Post 29 January 2015

Testimony from Sarah Parcak at CPAC Hearing

By |September 25th, 2014|Heritage Papers|

CPAC Testimony by Sarah Parcak Cultural Property Advisory Committee June 2nd 2014

Testimony from Monica Hanna at CPAC Hearing

By |September 25th, 2014|Heritage Papers|

CPAC Testimony by Monica Hanna Cultural Property Advisory Committee June 2nd 2014

Protecting Ancient Treasures from Becoming Casualties in Iraq and Syria

By |September 24th, 2014|Relevant Reading|

September 24, 2014 PBS News Hour By Jeffery Brown

Islamic State Sells ‘Blood Antiquities’ from Iraq and Syria to Raise Money

By |September 14th, 2014|Cultural Heritage, Our Voices|

Islamic State Sells ‘Blood Antiquities’ from Iraq and Syria to Raise Money Mark Vlasic Washington Post 14 September 2014

Treasure Hunter Barry Clifford: ‘Santa Maria’ Access Denied

By |July 14th, 2014|Our Voices|

Treasure Hunter Barry Clifford: 'Santa Maria' Access Denied Antiquities Coalition Blog - Justine Benanty 14 July 2014

The Scourge of Looting: Trafficking Antiquities, from Temple to Museum

By |June 23rd, 2014|Cultural Racketeering|

June 13, 2014 Tess Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSVRByUZYI

New Evidence Ties Illegal Antiquities Trade to Terrorism, Violent Crime

By |June 16th, 2014|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

New Evidence Ties Illegal Antiquities Trade to Terrorism, Violent Crime Heather Pringle National Geographic 13 June 2014

Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) hearing on Egypt’s MoU request for US import restrictions to combat the looting of Egyptian antiquities

By |June 6th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering, Media Library|

The Antiquities Coalition strongly supports the request of the Egyptian government for the United States to provide additional protections against the import of illicit Egyptian [...]

Egypt Fights Looters Stealing its Antiquities with Spacecraft and Statecraft

By |May 17th, 2014|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Egypt Fights Looters Stealing its Antiquities with Spacecraft and Statecraft Katherine Boyle Washington Post 17 May 2014

The Antiquities Coalition Hosts Top Cambodian Officials at Roundtable on Cultural Racketeering

By |May 14th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering|

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS TO A GLOBAL PROBLEM EMPHASIZED Cambodian officials continuing their efforts to repatriate a group of statues looted during the country's civil war joined the [...]

Egyptian Government Formally Requests Emergency Import Restrictions from U.S. State Department

By |May 6th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering|

The Egyptian government has formally requested that the State Department impose emergency restrictions on the import of Egyptian antiquities into the United States without the [...]

Egypt’s History Is Being Lost to Criminals

By |May 2nd, 2014|Cultural Racketeering, Our Voices|

Egypt's History Is Being Lost to Criminals Tess Davis and Blythe Bowman Proulx Huffington Post 30 April 2014

Peru Looting Research Project

By |April 28th, 2014|Photographic Evidence|

Peru Research Project Daniel Kobrinski, an attorney and a visiting researcher with the Instituto Del Peru Daniel Kobrinski’sresearch project focused on the trafficking of Peruvian [...]

Mali Looting Photos

By |April 28th, 2014|Photographic Evidence|

These photos depicting the illegal digging and of archaeological sites and looting of antiquities in Mali are credited to Roderick J. McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology [...]

Egypt’s Damage on the Ground

By |April 28th, 2014|Media Library, Photographic Evidence|

Egypt’s Heritage Task Force, a campaign to protect antiquities begun on Facebook by Egyptologist, Monica Hanna. The campaign’s photos on the ground provide an in [...]

Egypt’s Damage Seen from Space

By |April 28th, 2014|Media Library, Photographic Evidence|

The Coalition used aerial imagery analyzed by Dr. Sarah Parcak, National Geographic Explorer and Egyptologist from the University of Alabama at Birmingham to examine looting [...]

No Consensus on Tackling Egypt Looting

By |April 28th, 2014|Private-Public Partnership, The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

No Consensus on Tackling Egypt Looting Anny Shaw The Art Newspaper 30 April 2014

Antiquities Coalition Chairman Addresses “Stolen Heritage: Cultural Racketeering in Egypt” at The Middle East Institute in Washington, DC

By |April 25th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering, Our Voices|

Antiquities Coalition Chairman Addresses “Stolen Heritage: Cultural Racketeering in Egypt” at The Middle East Institute in Washington, DC Antiquities Coalition Blog 25 April 2015  

The Antiquities Coalition Hosts Egyptologist and Activist Dr. Monica Hanna

By |April 18th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering, Photographic Evidence|

Dr. Monica Hanna. Credit: Saving Antiquities for Everyone The Antiquities Coalition was pleased to host the founder of the Egypt's Heritage Task Force, Dr. Monica [...]

Looting Egypt’s Heritage

By |April 7th, 2014|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Looting Egypt’s Heritage Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim The Washington Post 18 October 2013

At Risk: Egypt’s Heritage and Our Own

By |April 7th, 2014|Our Voices|

At Risk: Egypt’s Heritage and Our Own Deborah Lehr Huffington Post 26 March 2014  

Egypt’s Heritage Plundered Anew

By |March 20th, 2014|Cultural Racketeering, The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Egypt’s Heritage Plundered Anew Editorial Board NY Times 20 March 2014

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Calls for US Importation Restrictions

By |March 18th, 2014|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Calls for US Importation Restrictions David LaGaccia ArtNet News 18 March 2014

Egypt Asks U.S. to Impose Sharp Curbs on Importing of Antiquities

By |March 14th, 2014|The Antiquities Coalition in the News|

Egypt Asks U.S. to Impose Sharp Curbs on Importing of Antiquities Tom Mashberg NY Times 14 March 2014

Fear and Looting in Egypt – Visible from Space

By |February 13th, 2014|Relevant Reading|

February 13, 2014 Al Jazeera America By Noreen Moustafa http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow/blog/2014/2/13/fear-and-lootinginegyptvisiblefromspace.html The pyramids of Giza stand as stoic witnesses to Cairo, a city perpetually buzzing with [...]

How ASOR is Helping to Protect Egyptian Antiquities

By |February 12th, 2014|Our Voices|

How ASOR is Helping to Protect Egyptian Antiquities Peter Herdrich ASOR Blog 13 January 2014

Global Alliance to Protect Egypt’s Stolen Antiquities

By |August 31st, 2013|Cultural Racketeering|

August 31, 2013 Cairo 360 Deborah M. Lehr Interview on with Osama Kamal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt9L3yPJjyE&app

The Illicit Antiquities Trade as a Transnational Criminal Network

By |March 19th, 2013|Media Library, Relevant Reading|

The Illicit Antiquities Trade as a Transnational Criminal Network: Characterizing and Anticipating Trafficking of Cultural Heritage International Journal of Cultural Property (2013) 20:113–153. By Peter Campbell 2013 Campbell [...]

The Fight Against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property: Best Practices in the United States of America

By |March 4th, 2013|Relevant Reading|

By Lawrence M. Kaye Best Practices in the United States of America.pdf

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