ATHAR Project is a project of @AchillesResearc that investigates antiquities black markets on social media platforms. Partner organization of @counteringcrime
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This month, the Bellingcat Open Source Challenge dives into the world of art, history and illicit trade. Can you spot the telltale signs of stolen cultural artifacts and trace who handled them in the past? Give this month’s Bellingcat Challenge a try! Challenge.bellingcat.com
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The #PeoplingPodcast is BACK! Today, to kick off Season 4, we are joined by Katie Paul to discuss the role of Facebook in the illicit antiquities trade, and how the company has been complicit in the sale and destruction of cultural heritage. Listen here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/04/…
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EVENT | Documentary Screening: Artifact War
Join us for "Artifact War," exploring ISIS's antiquities trafficking in Syria, followed by a panel with the filmmaker and other experts.
📅 Apr 4, 10:30AM-12:30PM
📍RSVP:
wilsoncenter.org/event/docum…
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The incredible work of @CounteringCrime members
@ATHARProject is now being featured in a documentary. Archeologists go undercover to save antiquities stolen by ISIS and sold on...wait for it...FACEBOOK. Check out the trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=sngcIglw…
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📷 A Visigothic silver medallion, dating between the 5th and 7th century CE, in circulation in New York with Phoenix Ancient Art is relinquished to Spain.
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/…
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NOW: They waited until late at night, but look at this little nugget and see what they snuck in in an effort to cut government: Scholars, museums, the Interagency Council on Homelessness and . . .
"The Minority Business Development Agency"
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Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. bellingcat.com/uncategorized…
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I talk a fair bit about the expectation that archaeologists will work for free. Even when we do get paid for appearing at events the reality can be grim. In this thread, I'm going to outline financial issues at play in giving a public lecture using a real world example...
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Well known antiquities trafficker Doris Wiener cited as only provenance for this Sotheby’s sale
Doris’s daughter Nancy Wiener was convicted of antiquities trafficking after her mother’s death
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More than a decade of civil war has left Syria starved of expertise: hundreds of Syrian archaeologists left the country, while opportunities for others to be trained by taking postgraduate degrees in foreign universities dried up.
cc: @ATHARProject
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Charlotte Higgins has a sweeping survey of the future of the British Museum: “Can the museum emerge from the crisis? Can it recover internal morale, get back the missing objects, reframe itself as something other than the museum that stole its contents?”
theguardian.com/culture/2025…
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“Art thieves may be polished and sophisticated or may belong to the slithery, common place garden variety…” we must “understand that our heritage is invaluable and ensure its safety, for it is art and culture that speaks for a nation’s history.”
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.@CBP returns 16th c document seized in NY. An investigation determined it was “illegally removed from Mexico’s Archivo General de la Nación (General National Archive of the Nation) and ultimately marketed for sale via an international auction house”
dhs.gov/hsi/news/2025/01/16/…
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Protecting Syria’s Heritage: Past Under Siege
Centuries of history stand on fragile ground. Syria’s cultural heritage has faced unprecedented destruction during the conflict, yet voices like Dr. Mamoon Abdulkarim and Dr. Amr Al-Azm remind us of the urgency to preserve these irreplaceable treasures. 🏛️
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Museums are beginning to talk about looting:
Asian Art Museum’s Moving Objects includes four ancient bronze sculptures from northeastern Thailand currently in the process of being returned bc they were sold illegally.
Ht @artcrimeprof exhibitions.asianart.org/exh…
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Video: A glimpse of the removal of violations from the remains of the Roman Temple of Jupiter, located in front of the Umayyad Mosque in Old Damascus.
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By the end of 2015, the Assad regime controlled less than 30% of Syrian territory, and just 1 of six of its world heritage sites.
“The greatest burden to protect Syria’s cultural heritage during this conflict has fallen on local stakeholders and non-state actors,” @alazmamr
As Syria builds its new future following the fall of the Assad regime, it’s important to remember the extend of the regime’s horrific war crimes to both people and heritage.
@alazmamr speaks to @turkiyetodaycom
turkiyetoday.com/region/turk…
