Inflated art appraisals cost U.S. government untold millions http://tinyurl.com/yvqy84 An alleged tax-fraud scheme involving donations of overvalued art to...
Of course the real problem here is not inflated art apraisals but the Internal Revenue Code. Don Dool ... From: "Dave Welsh" <dwelsh46@...> Inflated art...
Maybe this is a good article to review, from a few years ago: ** ** Bamiyan: Culture Under Attack By Deborah Klimburg Salter, Marianne Yaldiz and James Cuno ...
Situation at the Baghdad Museum is bleak but looting decreases http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7588 Five years ago Coalition forces invaded Iraq...
A Band of Antiquities Robbers was Apprehended near Mei 'Ami (March 3, 2008 ) http://tinyurl.com/2sa2wd (IAA) A band of antiquities robbers was apprehended on...
Authorities foil sale of precious Roman statue http://tinyurl.com/22a9u2 Two men have been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion of trying to sell an illegally...
Antiquities help finance insurgents, expert says http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23698122/ Iraqi extremist groups are now tapping into the nation's vast antiquity ...
It's odd that Colonel Bogdanos should revive this tired old claim, already discredited, when practically everyone in academia now readily admits that...
Ancient artifacts seized from country house http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23715140/ Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man's ...
Next Stop, Antiquity Station http://www.newsweek.com/id/124237 The discovery of ancient artifacts is usually cause for celebration and public excitement. But...
Art dealer Michel van Rijn suspected of laundering http://www.museumbeveiliging.com/2008/03/22/kunsthandelaar-michel-van-rijn-z ou-witwassen/ [in Dutch] ...
Iraq museum receives ancient artifacts http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News/1-15434-Iraq-museum-receives-ancient-ar tifacts.html Iraq's Minister of Tourism and...
Hi guys, Nothing to worry about. Michel and myself are witnesses in this case, in order to get some major crooks behind bars. But it´s such a laughter. The...
Keeping eBay at Bay http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26819/keeping-ebay-at-bay/ Web giant eBay should be banned from operating in France unless it conforms to...
Hunt for Tuscan treasures yields adventure, little else http://www.tampabay.com/features/travel/article432564.ece It is an hour before sunset and the...
... conforms ... Conseil ... members ... interests-accuses ... avoid the ... auctioneers ... eBay is ... since it ... vendors and ... action ... unethical ... ...
[snipped for brevity] ... Precisely! As one wise man once said, "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves,...
Operation of the Carabinieri Corps for Cultural Heritage Protection of Bologna http://tinyurl.com/46xhod [Italian] An operation of the Carabinieri Corps for...
Tourists 'stripping ancient Rome bare' http://tinyurl.com/2xpyjg Rome's ancient monuments are so poorly guarded that tourists are taking away mementos of their...
2008-03-27 19:04 Stolen Vesuvian fresco on show Huge Roman landscape mural on display after 40 years abroad (ANSA) - Rome, March 27 - A Roman fresco recovered...
Spain Breaks Up Internet-Trading Ring for Stolen Artifacts http://tinyurl.com/4pdw4z [Bloomberg] Spanish police said they broke up a nationwide network of...
2008-04-11 17:38 Emperor's head found in boathouse Art police recover two stolen 2nd- century Roman masterpieces (ANSA) - Rome, April 11 - Italian art police...
The art of authentic forgery http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974483.html Criminal case 482/04, the State of Israel v. Oded Golan and others, lays out the...
... lays out ... history of ... experts who ... inscription ... of ... more than 70 ... has ... the ... face a ... confessed to ... inscription, will ... ...
Eftis, et al. It is my experience that many universities are in no position to authenticate anything. Many of those asked to do so automatically take the...
... I couldn't agree with you more. Last year I sold a beautiful cycladic in Christie's New York. It went for double figures in dollar thousands. I had bought...
ALGERIA: STOLEN MARCUS AURELIUS BUST RETURNS TO ALGIERS (ANSAmed) - ALGIERS, APRIL 17 - The marble bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius from the II...
Philippe de Montebello responds to an article in Afrikanet.info by Kwame Opoku: http://tinyurl.com/427nee After the publication of the Article EUROPEAN AND...
Kwame Opoku answered De Montebello: http://www.museum-security.org/wordpress/?p=266 Very much worthwhile reading Tom Flynn's views about the Opoku - De ...
