http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org Site News daily 1 2007-10-09T13:17:06Z http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/applying-nagpra-in-hawaii HONOLULU – The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is largely considered a success in the mainland United States, not only for the Native tribes for which it was intended, but also for archaeologists. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:01:14Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/guilty-lawyer-who-hid-stolen-art-for-30-years Robert Mardirosian was handed loot by client who had just burgled Massachusetts collector No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:01:05Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/barakat-gallery-may-win-jiroft-artifact-case LONDON, September 25 (IranMania) - The Judicial Office director of Iran?s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) said that the London Barakat Gallery may win the city?s appeal court against Iran in the case of the Jiroft artifacts, MNA reported. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:01:10Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/unregistered-mayan-artefacts-discovered-in-orange-walk Police in Orange Walk have discovered a number of unregistered Mayan artefacts at a home on Otro Benque Road in OrangeWalkTown. There are numerous Maya ruins in the Orange Walk district that have not been excavated and police believe that there are people dedicated to looting these ancient temples. On Wednesday, police visited the home of 69 year old Cesar Castillo of Otro Benque Road Orange Walk where they found a number of unregistered pieces. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:21Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/u-s-supports-international-cultural-preservation U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Announces Awards for 2008 Support for Cultural Preservation in 59 Countries. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:58Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/us-returns-pre-columbian-artifacts-to-ecuador U.S. officials returned 168 pre-Columbian artifacts to Ecuador on Tuesday as part of an ongoing FBI initiative to repatriate stolen cultural treasures to their home countries. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:46Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/italy-returns-long-lost-parthenon-fragment-to-greece Italy has returned to Greece the 'Palermo fragment', a marble piece of the Athens Parthenon missing for nearly 200 years, officials said Tuesday. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:38Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/cbp-returns-suspected-stolen-antiquities-to-mexico San Bernardino, Calif. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials yesterday returned two centuries-old artifacts, one believed to date back to 200 BC, to the San Bernardino, Calif., consulate general of Mexico. They were illegally imported into the United States in 2004. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:15Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/nigeria-and-the-quest-of-reclaiming-its-stolen-cultural-objects-from-the-western-countries ...How often must the country ask for the return of its stolen objects! Last Thursday, on our Arts and Book Review pages, we published an article titled ‘Western countries may return stolen Benin artifacts if...”, where the spokeswoman of the Art Institute in Chicago, United States, Erin Hogan, was said to have expressed the willingness of the Western countries to return stolen Benin artifacts to the country if asked to do so by the Nigerian government. But as part of the on-going debate, and in reaction to the unwillingness of the Western countries to return stolen artifacts belong to African countries, a Ghanaian Art historian, and public commentator, Dr. Kwame Opoku in this piece provides insights into the lingering issue of restitution of the stolen Benin bronzes as well as how these priceless artifacts can be recovered from the Western countries; location and the numbers.... No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:10Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/extension-of-import-restrictions-imposed-on-archaeological-material-from-cambodia This document amends Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations to reflect both continuing and new import restrictions on certain archaeological material from Cambodia. Import restrictions that were previously imposed by CBP Decision 03-28 on certain stone, metal, and ceramic archaeological materials that are due to expire on September 19, 2008, are extended. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:05Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/macedonian-police-seize-stolen-antiquities SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Authorities have seized dozens of stolen ancient artifacts after raiding the homes of two suspected antiquities smugglers in southern Macedonia. Police confiscated about 70 archaeological items, including coins, terracotta figurines, pieces of silver and bronze jewelry and amphora dating from the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C., police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said Wednesday. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T19:00:52Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/historian-sentenced-to-18-months-for-stealing-historic MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that historian EDWARD J. RENEHAN, JR., was sentenced today by United States District Judge DENNY CHIN to 18 months in prison for his theft and subsequent sale of historic letters written by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T18:59:58Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/artifacts-go-back-to-mexico 2 antiquities dating as far back as 200 B.C. apparently were stolen No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T18:59:41Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/the-cultural-objects-of-south-ossetia-damaged-in-the-conflict-include Two churches and a synagogue are included in the list of 11 objects of cultural heritage of South Ossetia, which have documented destructions from the Georgian army aggression on August 8-12, 2008. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T18:59:53Z News Item http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/at-jurassic-era-site-in-s-utah-prehistoric-pilfering-thieves-ruin-dino Vandals have struck a rich dinosaur quarry outside Hanksville, where Illinois paleontologists this summer began excavating several nearly complete specimens of Jurassic-era species. An allosaurus was the main target of the thieves, who made hack work of bones that scientists had painstakingly exposed, then encased in plaster at the conclusion of digging season in June, according to a paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management. No publisher gnurkin 2008-09-26T18:59:45Z News Item