National Antiquities Take-Back Day
Today is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Each year the Drug Enforcement Administration coordinates with federal, state, county, and local police and police to collect millions of pounds of unused…
Drusus Head Revisited
Steve Litt reports that the Cleveland Museum of Art is returning a marble head depicting Drusus Minor to Italy because the object was stolen in 1944.When the Cleveland Museum acquired…
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The Assyrian Head Repatriation: Filling in the Details of ICE’s Investigation
This week U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned a looted fragmented limestone head of Assyrian King Sargon II to Iraq. The stone carving once sat…
Cultural Heritage Trafficking Requires Deterrence
Police officers are good at tracking down and arresting criminals. Prosecutors are good at securing convictions, even in some of the most complex cases. So why aren’t police and prosecutors…
ABC Radio Australia and Other News Reports on Cambodian Statue’s Repatriation
Credit: Ante Vecik Last week’s agreement between the U.S. government and Sotheby’s auction house to repatriate a 10th century sandstone sculpture continues to be widely publicized. Chasing Aphrodite has a recent…
New York’s Highest Court Rejects The Right to Pillage
It is no surprise that New York’s Court of Appeals decided last week that a “spoils of war” legal theory could not be upheld. That state’s highest court ruled that…