Co-founder, The Antiquities Coalition; Preservationist; friend of archaeology; business consultant
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Peter Herdrich retweeted
🚨BREAKING NEWS: @TheArtNewspaper names owner and location of one of the Ten Most Wanted Antiquities.
The Kwer’ata Re’esu Icon is located in Portugal, owned by the Coimbra-based Isabel Reis Santos, heir of the Portuguese art historian Luiz Reis Santos
theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/…
Peter Herdrich retweeted
We partnered with @EgyptianRescue to host a training on digitization, documentation, and preservation strategies for #museums. Learn more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3BPGOxj
Ending 4 weeks of @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue digitization & museum collections training with #REORG instruction with Hebatallah Abdelhamid. Honored to have @USAmbtoAlgeria Aubin and other @USEmbAlgiers colleagues joining at Bardo Museum for tomorrow's commendation ceremony.
At the Bardo Museum in Algiers where our @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue digitization training continues with EHRF's Ehab Naguib on digital photography and photogrammetry with Bardo staff. Thanks all, especially @USEmbAlgiers our funders and colleagues. #Algeria #culturalheritage
At the Bardo Museum in Algiers on #AfricaDay for @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue @USEmbAlgiers & Ministry of Culture training on digitization. Equipment delivery leads to set up and instruction for staff from six Algerian museums.
Peter Herdrich retweeted
Mark your calendar 📅 Next Wednesday, @helena_arose our Project Director, will be speaking at @StMarysMD discussing how Indiana Jones got it wrong.
Check out the details ➡️ bit.ly/3wGi8Vl
Peter Herdrich retweeted
Our ten most wanted antiquities list serves as an illustrative guide to missing artifacts from around the world. Take a look at the full list and help us #CombatLooting: bit.ly/3KCsCcZ
Please join us as we discuss practical solutions to on the ground challenges, values we adhere to in cultural heritage preservation, and a bit of international policy as well.
📢 REGISTER NOW: @pherdrich co-founder of the Antiquities Coalition and Project Director of five #CulturalHeritagePreservation projects in Iraq, will join @colgateuniv on November 10 to discuss his approach to preservation in the region: bit.ly/3TYRhhh
Peter Herdrich retweeted
📣Coming up on 11/10 @colgateuniv Emergency Interventions in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Iraq: A Conversation with Peter Herdrich @CombatLooting calendar.colgate.edu/event/e…
Congratulations to Tess, as well as @PGerstenblith and @artcrimeprof both thanked in the credits, for their contributions.
So many statues without feet! 😯
Excited to have mine there with those of the Duryodhana, Bhima, @iamjohnoliver, and @kumailn on yesterday's @LastWeekTonight.
Thanks again to all involved in putting together this great episode on the need to @CombatLooting.
As #UNGA starts, an overview of the project I am directing with Yazidi partners, @CombatLooting and @YazdaOrg, w/generous funding from @USAIDMiddleEast, on video documentation of #intangibleculturalheritage & sharing Yazidi heritage in IDP camps with kids bit.ly/3BrF1Oo
Peter Herdrich retweeted
Today, the United States government returned thirty cultural treasures worth tens of millions of dollars to the Kingdom of Cambodia, including a monumental sandstone sculpture of Ganesha, one of the AC's "Ten Most Wanted Antiquities."
📣📢There will be a press conference MONDAY, August 8, 2022, to announce the repatriation & return to Cambodia of 30 Cambodian antiquities seized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in partnership with HSI in three separate civil forfeiture actions. 1/3 @HeritaeAtState
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ALT Skanda on a Peacock
Interested to see what the #WadiAlFann project produces. Oldest of the old combined with newest of the new. Attention to the Nabatean heritage is appreciated. We covered Hegra back in my days at Archaeology magazine. @AlUla
Alda Benjamen is a great colleague on our @combatlooting work in Iraq and a very serious scholar. Congratulations, Alda, and consider picking it up.
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Fionnuala Rogers' policy brief for the AC is here, bit.ly/3eOGMue. Have a look and dig into her analysis of a back door to Europe for cultural racketeers.
#ICYMI Think Tank author Fionnuala Rogers and other experts spoke with Marketplace on "Will Brexit turn the U.K. into a hub for the trade in looted antiquities?," the subject of her latest policy brief with the AC.
Listen here: ow.ly/u3jm50Hmghv
Peter Herdrich retweeted
A big congratulations to @AnthroPaulicy of @ATHARProject for this well deserved honor.
Thanks for all you’re doing to keep this issue on the radar of Big Tech and realize much needed change!
ATHAR’s @AnthroPaulicy was included in the inaugural list of #NewsweekDisruptors, celebrating "50 visionaries, innovators and pioneers who are transforming the world through tech."
Her work at @TTP_updates, @ATHARProject and @CounteringCrime helps combat the harms of Big Tech
The Telegraph bit.ly/3FlH6fg on @CombatLooting's policy brief bit.ly/3kz3j1l arguing to fix trade regs that risk post-Brexit Britain becoming a hub for illicit antiquities. All credit to brief author Fionnuala Rogers of @UKBlueShield and proud to have edited.
Looking forward to our webinar on our latest policy paper and a hole in UK regulations of illicit cultural material. We will have a date for that soon.
Antiquities think tank pushes UK to impose tougher regulations to fight trade in looted art
@TheArtNewspaper reports on the work by UK Blue Shield Chair and @CombatLooting to prevent illicit trafficking in their new Policy Paper
theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/…
Brava to @ElizabethRodini, new Interim Director of @AmAcademyRome. Dr. Rodini's a historian & author of "Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image." Hear my @CombatLooting interview with her about her book at bit.ly/37R6kDm