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2011 has been a year of major changes, so this year I would like to send readers of Looting Matters Christmas Greetings from Suffolk in eastern England. Bookmark and Share so Your Real Friends Know that You Know ...
2011 has been a year of major changes, so this year I would like to send readers of Looting Matters Christmas Greetings from Suffolk in eastern England.
He added that even though the plates were not antiquities or looted art, per se, they were nonetheless of cultural importance to Iraq, which plans to convert some of Hussein's palaces to museums ? highly preserved reminders of the opulence and power ...
AP TRIPOLI, Libya -- Muammar Qaddafi's forces tried to flee Tripoli with a sack of ancient Roman artifacts in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund their doomed fight, Libya's new leaders said Saturday as they displayed the recovered objects for ...
Unlike many art and artifact disputes, this one was not about stolen goods, explains Sharon Flescher, executive director of the International Foundation for Art Research, which helps track looted antiquities. Explorer Hiram Bingham III, shown above in ...
Ryan Gosling Meme Guide. Really. - I'm not even into Ryan Gosling. I guess he's attractive, objectively speaking. But after finding these history related memes devoted to him, I'll concede t...
Guggenheim Helsinki: The View from Finland (plus my second Finnish TV gig) - Ivan Puopolo, reporting for the "Strada" program of Finnish Broadcast Company's YLE TV1, standing on the presumed site of the proposed Guggenheim HelsinkiThe...
Thursday, December 22 - Tombs of the ?golden chiefs culture? have been discovered at the El Caño site in Panama. The 1,000-year-old burials contain the remains of high-ranking ind...
2012 Meeting of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication - The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) will meet during the APA/AIA meetings on Saturday, January 7th 2012 from 9:00-10:30...
"These People Are Americans, So You Cannot Criticise Them For What They Say!" - . With reference to my earlier polemic text "Focus on CCPIA: "Protrection of Cutural Heritage Treasures - Please stop it", which ended up being posted by s...
Public Art Theft: Dulwich Park - The *AFP *reported that on Monday night a bronze sculpture titled "Two Forms (Divided Circle)" by Barbara Hepworth was stolen from its plinth in Dulwich...
Stephen Fry on the Parthenon Marbles - . "It?s time we lost our marbles" quips Stephen Fry ("*Greece is the Word*", December 19th, 2011.
The Fire at the L'Institut d'Egypte a "great loss" - One of the frustrations about writing about the protection of art and heritage is the biggest news items are often really grim, and there can often be l...
"We had no idea it was a library" - The CNN story on the burning of the library in Egypt contains a telling vignette: At least one demonstrator was unaware that the structure was a library ...
"We had no idea it was a library" - The CNN story on the burning of the library in Egypt contains a telling vignette: At least one demonstrator was unaware that the structure was a library c...
Museo Archeologico di Amelia: Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino - *This post is part of a series highlighting the collection at the municipal archaeology museum in Amelia. This information is from museum's English placar...
Palaeo-browsers of the primitive web - The Viola Browser. Love the color schemeArs Technica profiles the forgotten web browsers of the early 1990s: When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva's...
2012 American Numismatic Society Graduate Summer Seminar - Rick Witschonke, Curatorial Associate at the American Numismatic Society and co-director of the Graduate Summer Seminar, has indicated that the ANS is now ...
Good News From China! - This link points to a recent news article discussing new measures to patrol and prevent maritime looting of shipwreck sites around the Xisha (Paracel) Isla...
What is a collection, and what is meant by collecting? - As a child I had all sorts of collections: stamps, keychains, milk caps ("pogs"), coins, and ice hockey pucks. As an adult I still have all sorts of colle...
The Reverend William MacGregor - Beverley Rogers has published "The Reverend William MacGregor: an early industrialist collector", *Antiquity* 84, issue 325, September 2010 [Project Galler...
Detail from Apulian krater attributed to the Baltimore painter. A New York gallery is offering a pair of "important" Apulian volute-krate...
A New York dealer whose gallery is a member of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art has recently made the claim: " a his...
It appears that Essex Police are now investigating the gold sovereigns discovered during a rally at Twinstead near Sudbury in Essex ("Halste...
Fortuna © MiBAC The Italian Ministry of Culture has announced today that the North American healthcare company, Humana, based in Louisvil...
There is an image of an Apulian rhyton in the Medici dossier of some 4000 photographs . The piece is in the shape of a goat's head with horn...
Toroni © David Gill The US Department of Homeland Security has issued details of the types of archaeological material that are covered b...
Earlier this year I drew attention to key elements in the IADAA's Code of Ethics in the light of an article by Fabio Isman. Point 2 states:...
"Question?" by Langlands & Bell at University Campus Suffolk © David Gill I will be working through some ethical issues with students to...
I can remember the appearance of the sale catalogue that realised the antiquities of Athena Fund II. Objects that passed through that Fund c...
David Gill is Professor of Archaeological Heritage and Head of the Division of Humanities at University Campus Suffolk. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was subsequently part of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Swansea University.
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