More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department

The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia

Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases

Director does not foresee restitution to Germany

After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books

Dondelinger proposes uniform controls on external borders and a restitution system

Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR

The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II