Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 Posted in Indonesia, Underwater Archaeology | No Comments »
Michael Hatcher, the treasure hunter under investigation by the Indonesian government has publicly denied any wrongdoing and claims that the investigation is politically motivated by business rivals. Treasure Hunter Resurfaces to ... Read more..Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Cambodia | 1 Comment »
Cambodia has published a red list of artefacts aimed at stemming the looting of artefacts from the country, to be distributed to museums, auction houses and border checkpoints. You can ... Read more..Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
Construction works at Terengganu, a state on the eastern part of the Malaysian peninsula have revealed artefacts such as Chinese coins and ceramics. Authorities have stepped in to claim the ... Read more..Friday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam | No Comments »
It's mid-December already, and I haven't posted any news so far on account of being in Hanoi for the first couple of weeks, and then falling majorly sick after returning. ... Read more..Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Angkor, Cambodia, Thailand | No Comments »
Only one entry for this week's rojak, and it's a rather sad one. Andy Brouwer writes about the looting and destruction of lintels and statues at the border temple of ... Read more..Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 Posted in Burma (Myanmar) | No Comments »
Can anyone help with this question? In 1944, the Australian paper The Argus published a short note about the theft of a gold disc 25' in diameter from a temple ... Read more..Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Cambodia | No Comments »
Khmerization translates an article in Koh Santeapheap about the looting of a 1,000-year-old man-made hill in Svay Rieng Province. The unauthorised dig was done apparently with the collusion of the ... Read more..