CPAC Will Meet to Consider MoU Extensions with Cyprus and Peru – Public Comments Period Open
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Byzantine bronze cross from Cyprus subject to US import protections. Source: US State Dept. |
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Byzantine bronze cross from Cyprus subject to US import protections. Source: US State Dept. |
Byzantine glass lamp. U.S. State Dept. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Treasury Department today published notice of America’s extension of import controls governing archaeological and ethnological materials…
The recent repatriations of Cambodian cultural objects by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Norton Simon Museum have once again drawn public attention to at-risk Cambodian heritage. It has also…
United States Customs and Border Protection today issued the final administrative rule covering import restrictions covering archaeological and ethnological material from Greece. The rule follows the July 17, 2011 adoption…
The Roman Libyan site of Leptis Magna. The Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) meets today to consider a request to erect American import protections on endangered cultural property from Libya….
A federal grand jury on Wedesday charged four defendants–Javier Abanto-Sarmiento and Alfredo Abanto-Sarmiento of Trujillo, Peru and Cesar Guarderas and Rosa Isabel Guarderas of West Valley City, Utah–with one count…
Endangered Maya carved bone subject to import restrictions. U.S. State Dept. The U.S. government has renewed and expanded its bilateral agreement with Guatemala protecting jeopardized cultural heritage. Friday’s Federal Register…