Our Cultural Heritage

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Fines to Save Cultural Heritage Sites in Russia [good idea if you can do it]

Last week, Russia Beyond the Headlines ran a report about the proposed new fine structure which would strive to curb unauthorized manipulation of cultural heritage...
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UPDATE: Sicily Withdraws Loan of Antiquities from Cleveland Museum of Art

[caption id="attachment_2876" align="alignright" width="225"] Mozia Charioteer, 470-460 BC, part of the "Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome" exhibit canceled at the Cleveland Museum...
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Art Market Horoscope: Return of Chinese Bronzes to Shepherd New Art Market Prospects

The Summer Palace near Beijing was invaded and looted by British and French soldiers during the Second Opium War in the 19th century. The restored...
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Six Syrian Sites Added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger

The World Heritage Committee has placed six sites in Syria on the UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger in an effort to draw attention...
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Dinosaur Skeleton Returns to Mongolia

By Peninah PetruckThis May, a Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton, nearly complete, arrived home in Mongolia. This first ever cultural repatriation to Mongolia is the stuff of...
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List price of “Cultural Heritage Law”: $465.00 [No Joke]

Such much! Some enhanced appreciation of one's own cultural heritage comes from learning about it in a new language, if not in a new book....
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Mayan Temple Destroyed

It was reported that on May 13th, 2013 archaeologists and government officials in Belize discovered that the Nohmul complex site was destroyed.  It was one...
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Part II: UNESCO Forced to Consider Street Art as Cultural Heritage

By Center for Art Law. On March 27th, four sections of the East Side Gallery were destroyed to make way for a high-end construction project. ...
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Sotheby’s Controversial Sale of Pre-Columbian Artifacts Yields Low Sales Figures and Highlights the Increased Efforts of Countries to Repatriate Artifacts

Sale of pre-Columbian artifacts predominantly from the Barbier-Mueller collection, conducted over March 22-23 at Sotheby's in Paris, proved an anti-climactic end to a controversial story....
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Repatriation of Cambodian Art Sheds Light on Antiquities Trade

An ongoing series of actions by the Cambodian government illuminates the shadowy web of the international antiquities trade.  (Federal Prosecutors File Court Papers...)  In March,...
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Ethical Conflict Surrounding Cambodian Cultural Property

This year, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act 97 P.L. 446, 19 USC 2601 et seq. Pursuant...
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New Declaration Proposed for Saving Cultural Property

During the Seventh World Archaeological Congress held in Jordan last week, January 13-18, 2013, Professors Friedrich T. Schipper (University of Vienna) and Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul...
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