The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks

Case has so far seen Middle Eastern works seized from New York's Met and the indictment of a former Louvre director

Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi

Meeting, organised by France, aims to define new proposals to be adopted by the European Commission

US and Egyptian officials presided over handover at a repatriation ceremony in New York

Multi-national operation organised by Europol involved police forces from 29 countries

Will New York district attorney’s new unit clean up the antiquities market—or shut it down?

Head of the ethnographic institution applauds President Macron’s pledge to hand back African cultural heritage

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