The US has returned its first antiquity to #Palestine, a 2,880-year-old ivory spoon believed to have been #looted from an archaeological site in the Palestinian village of Al-Kum. A repatriation ceremony was held in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
#archaeology #antiquities #HeritageCrime @archaeodons @histodons
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-repatriate-first-looted-antiquity-to-palestine-2239461

An ancient wooden sarcophagus dating between 664 and 332 BCE, once featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, has been returned to #Egypt after US authorities determined it had been looted years ago.
#archaeology #Egyptology #HeritageCrime @archaeodons
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-03/looted-sarcophagus-returned-to-egypt/101822796

#Museums in #Ukraine are being damaged and "looted", says official, "but I could not imagine the scale".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/18/ukraine-museums-scythian-gold-russian-looters-putin
#archaeology #HeritageCrime #Russia

#Egypt has returned 176 "antique coins" seized at Egyptian ports to their countries of origin - #SaudiArabia, #Jordan, #Iraq and #China. Interestingly, several of the #coins specifically mentioned are quite modern, dating from the first half of the 20th century.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2215686/middle-east
#numismatics #HeritageCrime #Repatriation

A number of #UK treasure finds including a small hoard of #Roman #coins have gone missing from a secure facility at the Lancashire County Museum Service. Police are investigating.
http://thepipeline.info/blog/2022/11/28/police-probe-alleged-disappearance-of-treasure-finds-from-lancashire-museum/
#numismatics #archaeology #antiquities #HeritageCrime @archaeodons @histodons

...#TombRaider! Indy is literally raiding a tomb here. More on Lara-ism later, but for now here's another ancient corpse in armour. Sea-eels burst out of it.
#horror and #heritagecrime combined! <chills>
3/10

Wie funktioniert die Arbeit in einer internationalen NGO? Wie schützt man Kulturgüter im Irak? Und welche Karrieremöglichkeiten gibt es?

Dies und mehr habe ich letztens bei meinem Vortrag am HCCH Heidelberg besprochen.

[CW: Völkermord]

Slides: https://zenodo.org/record/7231727/files/Fobbe_2022-10-21_Kulturgueterschutz-in-einer-internationalen-NGO_Folien.pdf?download=1

Slides mit Notizen: https://zenodo.org/record/7231727/files/Fobbe_2022-10-21_Kulturgueterschutz-in-einer-internationalen-NGO_Folien-mit-Notizen.pdf?download=1

#histodons #histodon @histodons #LawFedi #Law @PIL @rewi @law #DigitalHumanities #HumanRights #Genocide @artcrime #HeritageCrime #InternationalLaw #Iraq #CulturalHeritage #Yazidis

Imagine keeping all these ancient gold coins worth a King’s ransom in one place!

RT @pipelinenews@twitter.com

#HeritageCrime News: In what seems to be a professionally executed theft, a hoard of 450 European Iron Age coins have been stolen from Manching museum, Bavaria.
The thieves appear to have stopped alarms reaching the Police by cutting off phone & internet. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/22/hoard-of-450-celtic-gold-coins-worth-1138m-stolen-from-museum-in-germany

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pipelinenews/status/1595151933509341185

#MetalDetecting is ate best a tragedy of the commons. Individuals appropriate #Heritage which is a collective good.

In some cases, using mechanical diggers, using pumps to lower the groundwater table, selling of the objects that are recovered, it is downright #looting. (Also, with the possibility of explosives near WWII plane wrecks, very dangerous).

Metaldetecting should be licensed.

#Archaeology #Heritage #HeritageCrime

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/opgraving-van-vliegtuigwrak-uit-de-oorlog-goedbedoeld-hobbyisme-of-verstoring-erfgoed~bf89a9ee/

In a rare instance (ba dum tiss) of timely insight, I've changed instances to #hcommons before making too many posts! I suppose reintroductions are in order.

I'm a PhD candidate studying the sociology and structure of the #RareBookTrade specifically focusing on #manuscripts , #fragmentology , and #bookbreaking. Here's hoping those tags fill up more! My background is in #materiality and #ManuscriptStudies, and I'm a private librarian by day. Part of #medievodons and #BookHistodons. I mostly post about #HeritageCrime of various forms, plus some photographic experimentation (and cats, of which I have two).

Pleased to meet you all!