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A network and knowledge building @eu_h2020 funded project for the fight against cultural heritage #looting and #illicittrade. RTs ≠ endorsement

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Ancient city of Cyrene looted for its treasures | The Times of London The ancient Greek city of Cyrene in Lebanon survived revolution, war and Islamic State but now faces destruction from developers, who are destroying tombs and looting artefacts. thetimes.co.uk/article/ancie…

Ancient city of Cyrene looted for its treasures

The ancient Greek city of Cyrene survived revolution, war and Islamic State but now faces destruction from greedy builders.Amid the first signs of peace ret

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“Lorry driver is jailed for two years for trying to smuggle ancient coins, arrowheads and statues into UK to sell for Bulgarian mafia bosses” And if those coins made it onto UK legal market they would be laundered and could be sold anywhere dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Lorry driver jailed for smuggling ancient artefacts into UK

Lorry driver jailed for smuggling ancient artefacts into UK

Dimitar Dimitrov worked as a courier for a Bulgarian crime gang when officers found artefacts worth £76,000 in his lorry. He admitted transferring criminal property at Canterbury Crown Court

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Benin home? theartnewspaper.com/news/ger…
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Netcher retweeted
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CCHT@ccht_venice18 Mar 2021
📢NEW exciting funded #PhD fellowship at CCHT! #Position on #EarthSciences and #MachineLearning for detecting buried #CulturalHeritage from #EarthObservation! Info: [email protected] ccht.iit.it/news To apply: rb.gy/dot8gs pg. 27,28 Deadline: 21/04 @IITalk @CaFoscari
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We're starting the three days #3Dreconstruction of #culturalheritage at #risk #trainingprogramme #H2020 @Netcher5 @CCHT_CaFoscari @CaFoscari @SciGalleryVce Welcome to all the attendees!
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In Egypt, looters and traffickers of antiquities can face sentences of life in prison and a fine of 5mil EGP (~$320k US). So why do so many people risk life in prison? Economic desperation and a no-questions-asked antiquities market with huge demand. egypttoday.com/Article/1/985…

Egypt punishes stealing antiquities by life imprisonment, LE 5M fine

Anyone who will steal an antiquity or parts of it will be punished with life imprisonment, and a fine of not less than one million Egyptian pounds, and not more than 5 million Egyptian pounds,...

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How wildlife criminals are being caught by their own mobile phone data @Independent - independent.co.uk/stop-the-i…

How wildlife criminals are being caught by their own mobile phone data

Technology that can find links in complex criminal webs has become the latest tool in the fight against poachers, writes Namita Singh

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A visit to one of the gun sale pages shows that weapons in conflict zones are trafficked as freely on Facebook as antiquities. The page is offering weapons for sale. These conflict weapon sales are being facilitated by a US company's platform, is Facebook violating US sanctions?
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Includes an interview with Jaume Bagot, the Spanish antiquities dealer charged with terror finance for allegedly trying to sell antiquities looted by ISIS.
François Cardona (@FransuaC) profile pictureFrançois Cardona@FransuaC15 Dec 2020
"An unprecedented year-long investigation" With @Paul_Cbs we shadow European specialist police units and investigative archaeologists to reveal sprawling criminal networks : "Stolen Bloood Antiquities" now available on amazon.com/dp/B08QDP88GH - @babel_press
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To those interested in @CombatLooting @CultureTraffic @ChasingAphrodit @Netcher5 #Cfp Online training #RemoteSensing to fight illicit excavation 19-21 Jan 2021 Lectures by @StudentsNCL Dr Louise Rayne @UniofOxford Dr Bijan Rouhani @FraCigna Myself netcher.eu/project-news/h202…
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Die Tagung "Archäologische Welterbestätten" im Rahmen der #dekmal2020 @ICOMOS fängt nun an. @FriederikeFless, Präsidentin @dai_weltweit eröffnet die Veranstaltung.
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Replying to @revuesdumonde
@revuesdumonde getting ready for the You Tube Live at 18h00 CET today! Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage. #ARCHAEOLOGY #ART #LAWENFORCEMENT @Netcher5
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D.C. Museum Of The Bible To Return Even More Looted Artifacts To Iraq : NPR Acquisitions were so reckless they’re finding thousands of looted objects they didnt know they had. npr.org/2020/07/31/897836720…
D.C. Museum Of The Bible To Return Looted Artifacts To Iraq

D.C. Museum Of The Bible To Return Looted Artifacts To Iraq

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has a record of buying looted antiquities. And it's trying to reform — it plans to send some artifacts back to Iraq and improve acquisition policies.

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Netcher retweeted
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Hagia Sophia: UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, made without prior discussion, and calls for the universal value of #WorldHeritage to be preserved. Full statement: on.unesco.org/326mk2C
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Facebook has a new antiquities policy, but some of its details - like the one on mummies - are already covered under OTHER policies that aren’t enforced by the company. @DamienHuffer covers the issue in a new piece for @CounteringCrime medium.com/alliance-to-count…

Mummy Dearest?:

Recently, Facebook announced its first ever policy change to finally list “historic artifacts” (broadly defined, but allegedly focused on…

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"Facebook has banned trading of historical artifacts as part of new community standards rolled out Tuesday after reports emerged in April of increased trafficking of looted antiquities on the site during the Covid-19 pandemic" @Forbes forbes.com/sites/carlieporte…
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For the first time, Facebook's Community Standards now officially list a policy on cultural property under 'Regulated Goods' This is a big first step to stop the trafficking of illicit antiquities on Facebook, but there's still much more to be done facebook.com/communitystanda…
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🙌2nd Issue in 2020 released with 19 papers. View the open access papers at mdpi.com/2571-9408/3/2. 👇Cover Story: Towards a Digital Sensorial Archaeology as an Experiment in Distant Viewing of the Trade in Human Remains on Instagram by @electricarchaeo et al.
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NYT obit: Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72 nytimes.com/2020/06/20/arts/…
Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72 (Published 2020)

Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72 (Published 2020)

A prosecutor in Italy, he dismantled multinational trafficking rings, recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Follow the upcoming online #UNESCO expert meeting Combatting Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property during COVID-19 – illicit excavations and online trade Link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbdkEX… 26 June from 2:30 pm to 05:00 pm (Paris time). #Covid19 #1970Convention #50Year
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