Looted art
Western museums under pressure from China, Turkey, and Cambodia to fulfil restitution claims
The number of artefacts under restitution claims is rising
The Dutch government gives up its claim on Nazi loot
The decision not to appeal cannot but weaken its claim to other war booty such as the Koenigs collection still held in Russia
Many Chinese collectors use their wealth to repatriate once-looted objects
Why bringing it back home is a mark of respect
How the missing Zodiac fountain heads continue to be a sore point for China
Several have appeared at auction in recent years; the whereabouts of five remain unknown
'Where is the crown of Maqdala?', V&A asks Ethiopia
Crown that was returned in 1925 has disappeared
Ukraine suffered “colossal” looting during World War II
New research challenges Russians’ claim that they own many cultural valuables from the independent state
Minneapolis hands Léger to collector’s family
The painting was stolen from its Jewish owner during the Nazi occupation of France
Lehman gift of Benin treasures to Museum of Fine Arts angers Nigeria
Works looted by the British and reassembled by banking heir find permanent home in Boston
US collector returns artefacts to Greece
Shelby White returns two two fourth century BC objects
Two books survey the deterioration of Iraq's cultural heritage fives years after war took hold
Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon
5 years after the Baghdad Museum's looting, a little optimism is finally appropriate: Interview with the British Museum's John Curtis
The situation at the Baghdad Museum remains bleak but thieves are less of a problem at archaeological sites
Insurance for war loot claims on the rise
Increasing numbers of private collectors, dealers, museums, and banks have been buying policies to protect their assets
Dodgy dealers, curators and collectors named in the Marion True trial in Rome
The latest in the trial of former Getty antiquities curator, Marion True, and the Paris-based dealer Robert Hech both charged with conspiring to receive illegally excavated antiquities
UCL damned over handling of looted Aramaic antiquities
A report which concluded that ancient bowls on loan from a Norwegian collector “must have been illegally excavated in Iraq” has not been made public
US collector Brooke Allen returns relics sacred to Kenyan tribe
The works were part of an estate the collector inherited from her parents
The German museum paintings secretly sold by the British government in 1946
Nearly 80 pictures, including works by Cranach and Kauffmann, were seized from the German embassy in London
Iran loses case against Barakat Gallery ordering return of artefacts seemingly taken from Jiroft
UK courts ruled that Iran presented insufficient evidence to warrant the antiquities' reacquisition
Norwegian collector to sue British university for return of his antiquities
But scholars say they are likely to have been looted from Iraq
Germans call for return of paintings in the National Maritime Museum seized by British troops
The London museum has turned down two previous requests for restitution
“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
The US Army’s hidden collection of Nazi art
Around 450 paintings made by artists working for the Third Reich are now in Washington, DC. They are unlikely to be returned to Germany
Revealed: six paintings in Maritime Museum were seized by British troops from Nazi Germany
Last month we reported that a Nazi picture in the London gallery was taken by British soldiers at the end of World War II. We have now discovered that other works of art were also removed
Growing evidence that Göring seized National Gallery’s Cranach from its pre-war owner
We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art
Getty revises its guidelines for acquiring antiquities—again
Artefacts must have left their countries of origin by 1970, the year of the Unesco Convention, or have proper export documentation to be considered for purchase
Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot
The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II
Antiquities resembling those looted from Jiroft offered for sale by satellite of Manhattan's Salander O' Reilly Galleries
Gallery “unaware” of concerns over objects offered on website
Statue of King Entemena looted from Baghdad's National Museum recovered in New York
Following its disappearance in 2003 and an international sting, the Sumerian statue was retrieved
Metropolitan to return antiquities to Italy
20 items that were looted or likely stolen are to be restituted
US colonel to lead antiquities anti-theft unit
Bogdanos attacks “cozy cabal of academics, dealers and collectors” who ignore provenance
$6.5 million settlement to heir for stolen Picasso
Chicago collector agrees to pay claimant to gain title to the work