Artefacts
Christie’s withdraws four ancient Greek vases amid concerns about their provenance and connection to disgraced antiquities dealers
The vases, which were estimated to sell for as much as $71,000, were pulled from a sale in New York this week
German authorities repatriate 75 ancient artefacts to Mexico
All but one of the items were voluntarily handed over by the Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter
Britain's oldest prayer beads—buried more than 1,000 years ago—to be displayed in new museum on remote island
It is one of several artefacts making their first public appearance at Lindisfarne Priory
Revelations in Cambodia looting scandal name ‘scholar’ at Denver Art Museum as accomplice to disgraced dealer Douglas Latchford
Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities
Cologne museum to transfer 92-strong Benin bronze collection back to Nigeria
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century
Mexican activists hack Viennese museum’s audioguide in protest over its ownership of the Montezuma headdress
Repeated requests by Mexican politicians to return the crown have been rebuffed
The ‘most important piece of prehistoric art’ found in Britain in a century will go on view at the British Museum
The 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture was discovered on a country estate near the village of Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire
Bitterly contested trove of Crimean gold artefacts must return to Ukraine, not Russia, Dutch court rules
Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014
Peru’s heritage gets a new $125m home
Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts
Machu Picchu may be decades older than previously thought
Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440
New York investigators hand over 27 smuggled art objects valued at $3.8m to Cambodia
Charges are pending against two New York-based antiquities dealers linked to the objects
Hobby Lobby files $7m lawsuit against former Oxford professor over allegedly stolen papyrus fragments he sold
The crafts chain, which bought them for its Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, says the seller lied about the biblical objects’ provenance
US hands over two stolen ancient lintels to Thailand after retrieving them from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Dating from the ninth and tenth centuries, the objects are thought to have been looted from sacred sites in the late 1960s
US returns over 500 smuggled pre-Hispanic-era artefacts to Mexican officials
Tools and other objects were discovered in a national park in southwest Texas, triggering an inquiry
After outcry from antiquities trade, Unesco further adjusts ad campaign on looted artefacts
Dealers association challenged the campaign’s claims that two newly pictured objects were stolen
US presses for return of two Thai lintels from Asian Art Museum in San Francisco to Thailand
Federal attorneys file a civil complaint, but museum says repatriation was already in the works
Germany to create central digital platform for museum objects acquired in colonial context
Measures agreed by government and states include a set of common standards for digital registers
“Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan”: recording and illustrating key objects in the Kabul Museum
Unesco has published a record of the 1,600 objects acquired by the institution between 1931 and 1985
Getty curator could escape charges on a technicality
Marion True faces charges of conspiring to receive illicitly excavated artefacts
Moral guidelines for archaeology
New rules and guidelines for archaeologists around the world.