Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

Looting & Illicit Antiquities

A topic within Heritage, Conservation & Controversy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.

Reading on Looting & Illicit Antiquities

2 works

Report1970

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

UNESCO

Argues that looted antiquities can only be stopped at the market rather than at the site, and commits signatory states to refuse import of cultural property stolen or illegally exported from another.

12 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

FreeIntermediate

Report2019

Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open-Source Data

Matthew Sargent et al.

Uses openly available sales data and social media rather than law-enforcement records to trace the antiquities market, arguing that popular claims linking the trade to large-scale terrorist financing are not supported by the evidence actually available.

Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

FreeIntermediate

Reading on Looting & Illicit Antiquities

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open-Source Data

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