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A feature on the massive temple of Banteay Chmar in Banteay Meanchay province, not far from the Thai-Cambodian border. The site is starting to see visitors again, but it’s sculptures have been looted – including a pair that’s said to be in the garden of a Thai politician! Another Great Cambodian Temple Stirs To Life [...] 500-year-old Portuguese-era artefacts have been illegally recovered from the Malacca River in Malaysia and sold, reportedly to antique dealers in Singapore. Coins recovered from the Malacca River, The Star 20110921 Ancient treasure found – and sold The Star, 21 September 2011 Malacca to act on theft of ancient treasure The Star, 22 September 2011 [...] An article highlighting the woes of maintaining Philippines’ cultural collections in the midst of competing economic pressures, poor infrastructure and looting. photo credit: asteegabo Chaos threatens Philippines’ cultural treasures AFP, via Philippine Inquirer, 14 July 2011 [...] The state government of Malacca is investigating allegations that shipwrecks in its territorial waters have been looted, in activities that have been going on as far as the late 1990s. Malacca probes sunken treasure thefts The Star, 26 June 2011 [...] Philippine archaelogist Victor Paz sounds an alert over the theft of bones from two burial caves in Palawan. The bones are thought to be stolen by the descendants of World War II soldiers. The linked article also carries a copy of Paz’s letter to the National Museum detailing the looting matter. National Museum probes alleged [...] var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-35.312122, 149.119418); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById(“mygpMap3976″), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); Yesterday (10 Mar 2011) I had the brilliant opportunity to witness the return of artefacts [...] A truck laden with artefacts thought to be from China’s Ming dynasty was seized in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province. Ming Dynasty artefacts, Vietnam Net Bridge 28 Aug 2010 Truck on antiques seized Vietnam Net Bridge, 28 August 2010 [...] 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 Deny Theft Allegations Jakarta Globe, 04 May 2010 [...] 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 help, too, by supporting local businesses when in Cambodia and not buying marketplace antiquities! New List Aims to Stem Tide of Cambodian Stolen Antiquities [...] 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 artefacts, but it appears that some of the construction workers have been quietly selling off some of the artefacts to private collectors already. Ancient [...] |
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