Art and Antiquities

IASA-Online.com is a centralized visual archive of stolen valuables.

Trace provides a recovery service for victims of theft, etc..

An Archaeos, Inc., Documentation and Information Project

Two Turner paintings from the Tate galleries' collection, stolen while on display in Germany eight years ago, are found.

Art theft

Online database of Stolen, Lost and Recovered Art and antiques.

Welcome to the Home Page of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre, established 1996 at the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, UK to research and highlight damage caused by looting of archaeological sites. Publishes periodical Culture Without Context. Information on latest news, events, information, legal conventions, resources.

Welcome to the website of Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to help combat theft

David Gill and Christopher Chippindale on the material and intellectual consequences of collecting antiquities.

Looters stripped churches in Cyprus, removing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 icons; several dozen major frescoes and mosaics dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century; and thousands of chalices, wooden carvings, crucifixes, and Bibles.

In early 1996, Swiss police raided four bonded warehouses in Geneva containing 10,000 artifacts, most of them probably smuggled from Italy, valued at $35 million, one of the largest antiquities seizures ever.

A Problem Based Learning Lesson about the true ownership of valuable works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the 1991 Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite