A Growing Archaeological Looting Network Between Thailand and Myanmar
via Tea Circle: Oxford DPhil Candidate Phacharaphorn Phanomvan discusses the emergence of small scale looting of antiquities in Myanmar and ...
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.
Sunken Australian warship HMAS Perth ransacked by illegal scavengers
The Guardian, 05 June 2017: One of Australia’s most treasured second world war warships has been illegally salvaged for metal, ...
Maritime Grave Robbers Detained
The Maritime Executive, 08 May 2017: The Malaysian and Indonesian authorities have detained the MV Chuan Hong 68 and her crew, ...
Even With the Khmer Rouge Gone, Cambodian Antiquities Are Still Looted
The Observer, 12 April 2017: "I went into it because I thought I might be able to afford to buy ...
Looted Cambodian antiquities case highlights murky role of consultant scholars
30 March 2017: A report from the New York Times on the ongoing investigations of a New York auction house ...
Buyer Beware: US Market for Ancient Asian Art Still the Wild, Wild East | The Diplomat
A piece by Tess Davis of the Antiquities Coalition on the lessons we can learn from the looting situation in ...
Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?
Natali Pearson discusses the recent cases of underwater looting of World War II shipwrecks in Indonesia Sunken World War II ...
Stolen Buriram lintel believed found in San Francisco
A lintel that was stolen from an Angkorian temple in Thailand's Buriram province is believed to be found in a ...
New book on Battambang Museum collection aimed at preventing sale of stolen statues
The Cambodian Museum of Culture has just published a book of stolen antiquities from the Battambang museum, a move which ...
The legacy of the Ban Chiang discovery
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Ban Chiang culture in Thailand's Udon Thani province. This ...
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