You're going to be so excited we're here, you're going to want to join the empire with us." Most of the Dutch said, "No thanks." Loot . By the way, when they ship people out, there's all this loot they take.
transparency was crucial his troops were herdsmen there was no money their only wealth came either from herds or from loot their reward for leaving home was silk material Goods slaves animals thesehad to be distributed distributed fairly all the loot was owned by Jenis but he
The primary threat to sites is probably development. Looting is a big problem, but it's one thing if a site's looted , and there are a couple hundred looting pits.That's bad. Versus a hotel coming in and bulldozing an entire site, then it's gone forever.
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We're gonna say, 'Do have any proof that the statue was looted , speak now or we're gonna buy this thing.'" They would also get a warranty from the dealer Symes saying that he warranted that this wasn't looted and they would publish and display the object and let everybody see it and so if anybody had a claim against it they could come forward and the Getty said, "Well, ifthey come forward, we'll deal with 'em when they come forward." Well, this is the new policy, there was one more aspect of the new policy and it's written
a single photograph because their family possessions, their homes, their belongings were looted , burned, stolen. And after the war, if they survived, if any family member survived, they had nothing to take with them.
Right. And so the difference this time for us was we discovered that ISIS's second best form of revenue was looting antiquities and selling them on the black market. Wow. And so that gave us a really good modern way in to giving stakes to treasure.
Through this story you'll be able to see all the nuances of looted art, theft, and recovery. Why did the Nazis loot art? It all started at the very top with Adolf Hitler.
Therefore, that would have led to the number of poor people being around 95%, and probably, and by December, the Peronist party would have organized supermarkets lootings and would have done all sorts of things and would have probably been ousted. And by the first part of the year, the Peronists would have gone back to office.
Now, I'm going to tell you straight up, about 75% of that loss, that cultural property loss, is not theft. It's not looted antiquities. It's not stealing. What it is, is fraud.
it's bits of sand in her eyes. So using all the looting information that I had-- 300 sites, there were 20 that had Ptolemaic period looting . There were five that were from the desert, and sort of a narrowing down process, we were able to figure out with a pretty high degree
That's bad. Versus a hotel coming in and bulldozing an entire site, then it's gone forever. Most sites are looted . Most sites, even King Tut's tomb was looted when Howard Carter found it.
And thank you all for coming on this very hot Monday afternoon. The subject of Nazi looting has been in the news a lot lately. It seems as if every week there's some sort of new Nazi-looted object that has resurfaced.
But what makes this different is that it was highly systematic. The Nazis actually had looting organizations. These organizations employed hundreds of people.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. they're looted . Because Gurlitt said that none of these were looted and they were all acquired legitimately.
It was a really strange phenomenon that I hadn't expected, that everyone just suddenly went to live in the parks and was calm about it. There was no looting . There was no violence that I saw.
Things actually get worse. dissolve into chaos and looting ?
But in Blackmoor, there was no honor amongst thieves. You'd be looted before your body hit the ground." The game played a little differently, too. "It was a different way of interacting," says Mornard.
This is known as the Euphronios Krater, it's perhaps one of the finest ancient Greek vases that we have. It had been looted just a few years earlier from a tomb outside of Rome, smuggled through a network of dealers, and presented to the Met. And the Met had a pretty good idea, Thomas Hoving himself had a pretty good idea, that this thing was a fresh find but he couldn't turn it down, it was too nice, it was just
of that paint has survived antiquity. trying to identify looted antiquities -- Jason Felch: Yes.
that did not blow up and launched on time and in fact I lost a bet to one of the other fellow travelers on the on the trip because he said that you will loot that I owed him some amount of money if they didn't launch within four seconds of launch now can you imagine if we applied that rule and all the other space programs and that's how impressive
But it's definitely helping to fuel their efforts. So the idea that we can track looting and identify where it's going on and then share that information with organizations like Homeland Security, I should say this is the one good thing I think they do without being overtly political at present.
And so protecting sites is of the utmost concern to them. And if you get caught looting in Egypt, the penalties are pretty stiff. You'll go to jail for years and years.
I mean, this is science. or regions where there could be a looting pit or a potential archaeological feature.
So the first part will be the theft part. We'll look at how the Nazis looted art and the vast machinations that they used to carry out the looting . In the second part of the lecture, we'll look at recovery.
There were several high-ranking Nazi officials that considered themselves not just great art collectors but art connoisseurs as well. So if you were in a looting organization and you could create a pipeline of art to the likes of Goering or Goebbels, you would be in good stead with Nazi elite.
During this conference, delegates from 44 nations got together and came up with a set of principles of how to deal with looted art. And again, they were called, appropriately enough, the Washington Conference Principles.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. It's changed the way that museums looted art.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. "Portrait of Wally" was not the only looted work of art in his collection.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. There have been exception for Holocaust-looted art, which you can give it back.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. Are the differences between art that was looted by individuals and there was in the more sort of state-sponsored looting , in terms of recovery, are there big differences
And for many people, this was an easy decision to make, because the freeways that are now brand-new allow easy access to and from the suburbs. Arrestees were picked up for not only looting and arson and stuff like that, but the majority of them
had been shot that had been looting uh important archaeological um uh treasures and you
but it really does affect the looter if you tell them that they're a looter right so if you how they died in combat
Over 1,500 stores were looted .
it really captures a moment in time in the American museum world. American museums had been buying recently looted antiquities with knowledge for decades. And this is really one of the few times where, because of changing tides in this world, senior museum officials were saying, "Can we keep doing this and get away with it?"
Well, the archaeologists in the field saw the results of this pillage not just in the classical world but also all across Latin America, across Asia, across the Middle East; archaeological sites were being devastated by the looting . There was a huge demand for these objects and it had created a huge problem with plunder.
bought an enormous, beautiful Indian Vishnu and he's got it and somebody says, "Well, India says this thing was recently looted and smuggled out of the country." And Norton Simon says, "Hell yes, it was smuggled. I spent between $15 and $16 million in the last two years on Asian art, and most of it was smuggled." So not exactly a secret, this is business as usual in the museum world.
Well, whadda you do? You know these objects were looted . For the first time Italians had something they'd always been missing which was kind of smoking gun proof of where these things had come from.
Because I was taking pictures of looters that were looting out in the Oakland riots.
heard that he he wasn't another looter out there. And you're going to see more community activism in Atlanta recently.
sub-saharan Africa rebel warlords have looted minerals and diamonds and smuggle them in order to fund
I was working in this restaurant called Spice Root at the Loot Palace on Fulton Street.
So soldiers are likely to be carrying around loot .
loot their reward for leaving home was silk material Goods slaves animals thesehad to be distributed distributed fairly all the loot was owned by Jenis but he remember remained austere in his way is there was then a hint of democracy in
But that's your public resource. And today, Nazi-looted art is still out there.
So if they see a container that's full of antiquities, and they go, wait a minute. OK, there's looting in Egypt. This looks really sketchy.
The judge will say, well, what's your probable cause? Can you prove that this material is likely looted ? And that's where someone like me would come in and say, actually, yes, in Egypt, I can show looting at almost 300 archaeological sites.
They claim it's Middle Kingdom. Here are eight Middle Kingdom sites that have been looted . Then the judge can say, yep, totally likely that this is looted .
Then in the final part of the lecture, we're going to get personal. And I'm going to talk about a story of Nazi-looted art that involved my family. Through this story you'll be able to see all the nuances of looted art, theft, and recovery.