UK investigates fresh reports of looting of sunken navy ships
via The Guardian, 19 August 2018: UK Government investigating the looting of sunken navy ships in Malaysian and Indonesian waters. ...
Tag: looting
The act of looting or stealing during a disturbance is a form of cultural theft. Looted artifacts often become part of the antiquities trade in Southeast Asia. In some cases, artifacts whose provenance can be established are repatriated to their home countries.
Recapping New York v. Nancy Wiener – The Antiquities Coalition Blog
via The Antiquities Coalition Blog: The first of a four-part story on the case of a New York art dealer's ...
Remains of WWII Dutch navy personnel found in Lamongan
via Jakarta Post, 02 March 2018: A team from the Lamongan administration has excavated a grave, reported to be the ...
Indonesia: cemetery dug up in search for bones of British and Dutch sailors
via the Guardian, 27 Feb 2018: Indonesian foreign ministry and Dutch embassy looking for bones believed to have come from ...
Tourist returns stolen bricks to Thai temple
via Deutche Welle, 05 February 2018: Tourist steals bricks from Ayutthaya, suffers an 'unpeaceful' life, returns them by mail. An ...
Bodies of second world war sailors in Java sea ‘dumped in mass grave’
via the Guardian, 22 January 2018: The Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Exeter sank after the Battle of the Java ...
The race to save up to 50 shipwrecks from looters in Southeast Asia
via The Conversation, 16 November 2017: More than 48 shipwrecks have been illicitly salvaged - and the figure may be ...
Massive grave robbing in Southeast Asian seas
via The Guardian, 03 November 2017: 40 shipwrecks, mostly war graves, in Southeast Asian waters have been found to be ...
Video: The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities
Featuring an interview with Tess Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLt9beOGas The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities
The many lives of André Malraux
via Apollo Magazine, 26 August 2017: A short biography of André Malraux, a Frenchman who was convicted of looting antiquities ...
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