Antiquities from South America, from the Middle East, Asian antiquities -- these are all a part of art crime.
antiquities back from those countries.
It's not looted antiquities .
was looting antiquities and selling them on the black market.
"Acquisition policy antiquities ." They were creating a special policy just for antiquities .
Most classical antiquities in American museums do not have a documented provenance, meaning we have no idea where they were found or how they got to those museums.
We wanna display antiquities , we wanna educate our public, we wanna display them and we're gonna stop relying on the black market.
looking at these lovely antiquities that have no provenance, snapping a picture and uploading it onto WikiLoot and allowing either experts or an algorithm to see if it matches any of
trying to identify looted antiquities -- Jason Felch: Yes.
it's classical antiquities from the Mediterranean, mostly Greece and Italy, going through to classical collections in the United States.
There is something called the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
American museums had been buying recently looted antiquities with knowledge for decades.
A low level middleman in the illicit antiquities trade in Italy crashes his car, dies, the police find some artifacts in the car, they go back to his house and they find this document.
Giacomo Medici has thousands of antiquities all over the place in various states of restoration; some are in crates labeled Cerveteri, the little town outside of Rome that's got a beautiful
their finest pieces of classical antiquities when confronted with this really clear evidence, just from the Medici archive remember, of the looted origins of these things, these
So if they see a container that's full of antiquities , and they go, wait a minute.
And he claims that the Greeks used this for assessing to antiquities .
Isn't it really our duty in the world to purchase antiquities like this even if they've come out of their country illegally?
This document is a org chart for the illicit antiquities trade in Italy.
They have a wonderful collection of Southeast Asian antiquities .
museums after a five year undercover investigation of an illicit antiquities network smuggling Southeast Asian antiquities out of Thailand and Burma and Cambodia through Los Angeles.
There are these thousands and thousands of photographs of recently looted antiquities that have been seized by Italian authorities and Greek authorities.
The other problem is that our knowledge of the illicit antiquities trade is really rather poor because of this lack of data.
His talk is gonna provide basically the insider's view of the illicit antiquities trade as well as the international black market in recently excavated artifacts.
The Getty had been wrestling with the issue of whether and how to acquire antiquities particularly antiquities that appeared to have been recently excavated for many years.
Hecht really since the 50s had dominated the illicit trade in classical antiquities ; he's an amazing man, I got to know him pretty well while reporting this book and he just died
of the leading museums in the world with many of their finest classical antiquities that we have.
A, it set the market for antiquities , he could basically decide what objects would be worth, and B, it laundered them, it gave them a clean provenance 'cause at the time anybody would
And then they'd open up catalogs of the world's known antiquities collections and they'd leaf through them and they'd say, "Gee whiz, that looks familiar.
So, if you share your antiquities with us and send 'em to us on loan, we'll stop relying on the black market and we can help you restore them and protect them and study them and there's
of a paradigm shift in the museum world not just in the antiquities world, but I think people are realizing: do museums really need to own all the objects that they display?
On the left is Michael Padgett, Antiquities Curator at the Princeton Museum of Art.
So that's another way that Google might play a role in the illicit antiquities trade.
And I think no one has an interest right now in getting caught with looted antiquities .
And they try to find Incan graves or any type of ancient graves to try to find antiquities to sell to the market.
is the local history teacher, who set up a revolutionary antiquities department.
So when he was driven out, Marion True was suddenly elevated to the position of Antiquities Curator.
So John and Harold had been going back and forth for several years over this question about antiquities , the antiquities collection.
years, regional museums across the United are buying up antiquities , ancient antiquities , in particular classical antiquities at a huge rate; they're gobbling up everything they
He was arrested or indicted under an alleged conspiracy to traffic near Eastern material recently looted Egyptian antiquities , smuggled through Bahrain into New York City where they
I'll throw one out there because I was asked to: a lot of field archaeologists and governments in antiquities rich countries that have troubles monitoring their archaeological sites rely
Under the terms of your license, you are honor bound to report anything of historic importance to the Museum of London for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
And what my colleagues and I have come to realize is that organizations like ISIL are using the proceeds from the sale of archaeological antiquities
So you'd find in these collections everything and anything, interesting things from the natural world, coins, fossils, you name it, sometimes antiquities from the past too.
in the L.A. Times but also into the book entitled Chasing Aphrodite which chronicles basically the illicit antiquities trade as it existed in one of the world's richest museums.
I have an idea for a project that could harness technology to address some of the problems raised in the book in the illicit antiquities trade, but I'm not a tech guy.
And so he had fantasies of grandeur and ancient art, antiquities , gave him an opportunity to kind of feel the past in his own hands.
This is Marion True; she came to the Getty in the early 80s as an Assistant Curator for Antiquities .
Well Marion True was well positioned; she came into the Getty at a time of a lot of flux, in fact her boss, the Curator of Antiquities at the Getty was a man named Jiri Frel, a
In the 1980s, these men were the very tippy top of the market in ancient art; they were dealers of antiquities ; they had the very best stuff out there.