Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

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    Rather Optimistic Tekkies Disappointed by no-sale

    Two Suffolk artefact hunters will not be able to pay the landowner off just yet (Alice Cunningham,' Medieval gold ring fails to sell at au...

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    The Lesson of Torchesk

    2026 screenshot (after Sikorski)       Jerzy Sikorski reports that at the EAA meeting in Athens, in a paper (read by Je...

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    Archaeological Looting in the Republic of Bashkortostan

    A recent study (Gizzatov, Tuzbekov and Akhatov 2025) reveals that over 12% of recorded archaeological sites in the Republic of Bashkortostan...

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    New Study Revealed Looting Continuing in Syria

    Jesse Casana et al, Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Archaeological Site Damage in Syria: Revisiting a Post-War Landscape , Heritage (2026)....

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    The Theft of the Vix Torc

    As is being reported in the media, on Friday, July 24, 2026, at approximately 10:30 AM, two thieves paid the admission fee to enter the Mu...

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    Trump reduces size of 2 national monuments in Utah

    In the USA, President Trump announces that he is terminating 3 million acres of national monuments in southern Utah, opening them up to dril...

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    Native American Public Archaeology under Trump?

    Watching over the looters' shoulders: " A Digger Hit A Bascom Blade Cache, “4,000 Years,” Then More Blades Were Still In The Dirt ". Much ...

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    "From a Private Collection" How Did it get to New York?

    Sothebys New York .                    Colección Mariano Moret @ColeccionMMoret [ Translated from Spanish] "Despit...

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    Israel in Lebanon

    Israeli forces have detonated the historic Shamaa Castle and the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa (St. Peter) in south Lebanon, destroying the UN...

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    Excavation-Permit Flaunting Archaeologist Goes Free

    Poland has released Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin who was due to be extradited to Ukraine to face charges of carrying out illegal...

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    The Curse of the Mummy Ring

    Celestial Rex, ' The Curse of the Mummy Ring ' "May 2019. A simple click on an online listing, a purchase from a small Canadian museum, an...

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    Drents Museum in Assen Gold Theft, Update [UPDATED]

    After over a year's work by the Dutch police, it is reported that the golden Romanian helmet of Coțofenești that was stolen in 2025  from a ...

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    Cultural Property in War, 2026

    Not so long ago, American academics and heritage professionals were eager to leap in and tell Syrians and Ukrainians how to protect their o...

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    Missile Attack on Old Jerusalem

    A missile has just struck Jerusalem’s Old City, very near to the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (all U...

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    These Ancient Sites are in Jeopardy

    In the southwestern Amazon, one archeologist is fighting to protect ancient sites from Brazil’s seemingly unstoppable agribusiness indust...

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    More Cultural Crimes in US 'Epstein Raids'

    As reported by Iranwire , as a result of the ongoing illegal US and Israeli bombing raids a number of Iran’s historic buildings have been da...

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