US: Some Custer Museum Artifacts Were Stolen
 
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press
BILLINGS, Montana March 19, 2012 (AP)

A cache of American Indian artifacts seized during raids on a Custer-themed museum in southeast Montana includes items allegedly stolen from members of the Crow Tribe.

The allegation was detailed in court documents filed by the government in part to explain why it still has the artifacts three years after federal agents dropped their criminal probe of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-custer-museum-artifacts-stolen-15956508

Antiquities Dealer Gets Home Detention, Fines for Illegally Dealing in Indian Artifacts

Michael Glen Malter, owner of Malter Galleries Inc., in Agoura Hills, pleaded guilty last year to illegally trafficking in Native American archaeological resources.

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Agoura Hills antiquities dealer was sentenced Monday to one year of home detention and ordered to pay about $24,000 in penalties for illegally buying and selling American Indian artifacts, including stone tools and arrowheads that had been stolen from federal land.

Michael Glen Malter, 56, pleaded guilty last year to illegally trafficking in Native American archaeological resources. His home-based business, Malter Galleries Inc., was also a defendant in the case.

http://agourahills.patch.com/articles/antiquities-dealer-gets-home-detention-fines-for-illegally-dealing-in-indian-artifacts#c

House to protect foreign artwork, except artwork stolen by Nazis
By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/19/12 10:02 AM ET
 
The House on Monday afternoon will vote on legislation aimed at making it easier for foreign governments to lend works of art to be displayed in U.S. museums, without fear of having the artwork subjected to litigation once it enters the United States. But the bill to be voted on would exempt artwork stolen by Nazi Germany from these assurances.

Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) introduced the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act, H.R. 4086, in February. Chabot says his bill is meant to clarify the relationship between two existing laws that has made some foreign governments wary of temporarily exporting artwork to the United States.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/216649-house-to-protect-foreign-artwork-except-artwork-stolen-by-nazis

Nazi looted poster art must be returned to Peter Sachs

Peter Sachs began his legal fight in 2005 to retrieve the posters Continue reading the main story

A Jewish man has won his fight against a German museum for the return of thousands of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis in 1938.

Berlin's Federal Court of Justice ruled Peter Sachs, who now lives in the US, is the rightful owner of the posters.

The judges said that not returning the posters "would perpetuate Nazi injustice".

"I can't describe what this means to me on a personal level," Peter Sachs said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17399133

Protecting Greek Antiquities in Lean Times
By Clark Boyd ⋅ March 14, 2012 ⋅ 
 
The Association of Greek Archaeologists have released posters like this to asking for public support for Greek culture.

“Monuments have no voice. They have us.”

That was the message from the Association of Greek Archaeologists at a news conference in Athens today.

Despoina Koutsoumba, head of the association, said the Greek government is failing to protect Greece’s cultural heritage, leaving the country’s antiquities up for grabs.

http://www.theworld.org/2012/03/protecting-greek-antiquities/

A trial that touched on archaeology, chemistry, Bible studies and criminal law ended in the acquittal of accused forger Oded Golan

A trial that touched on archaeology, chemistry, Bible studies and criminal law ended in the acquittal of accused forger Oded Golan

Greek Archaeologists Plead for Help to Protect Heritage Amid Austerity