- The slow and difficult effort to rebuild L’Aquila
- Interpol will publish photos of missing Egyptian artefacts, an important step which means these objects will now also be subject to the Art Loss Register’s checks, if they weren’t already.
- Antique coins have been stolen from Cairo University’s faculty of archaeology.
- Romania has recovered 232 objects, including a gold bracelet and other objects which had been stolen from the archaeological site of Sarmisegetusa.
- Ten works which are perpetually damaged.
- More on the Icon-smuggling ring discovered in London.
- An arrest has been made in the case of a tapestry stolen in 2000.
- Will new databases reveal more Nazi-era spoliation claims? The International Research Portal will join the state archives of several nations in one location.
- An antiquities smuggling case in McAllen, Texas.
- Damien Huffer discusses recent examples of looting and vandalism in the Southwest.
- Objects seized in Houston are returned to Peru. The items were worth approximately $43,000 and included 4th century pottery, stone sculpture, and an 18th-century manuscript.
- More settlements at the Leopold Museum with Nazi-era claimants.
- An interview with Ralph Frammolino and Jason Felch.
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