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bat400
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|  Posted 20-02-2010 at 04:34
Dutch return plundered 4,000-year-old clay tablet to Iraq
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Netherlands authorities say they last week returned to Iraq a 4,000-year-old clay tablet discovered when it was put on sale on an online auction site. “The police found the tablet last December on the Marktplaats auction site,” the Culture Ministry said in a statement. “The owner voluntarily gave it up after being informed that it was illegal to trade in Iraqi cultural artefacts.”
The tablet, 7 centimeters by 4.5 centimeters, has been dated to 2040 BC, and comes from the ancient city of Ur. It is inscribed with an administrative list with numbers, names and payments for services rendered.
The tablet would be presented to Iraqi ambassador Siamand Banaa at a ceremony in Leiden, a Culture Ministry spokesman said. It would then be transferred to the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden for a special exhibition with another 69 archaeological objects from Iraq.
These objects, including terracotta sculptures and clay tiles with inscriptions in cuneiform writing, had all been recovered by Dutch customs authorities from the illegal art circuit.
Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=110802.
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| Posted 20-02-2010 at 05:43
Police in Cyprus foil €11m plot to smuggle ancient artefacts
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Authorities in Cyprus have smashed a smuggling ring, recovering dozens of ancient artefacts it planned to sell for €11 million (£15.5m). In what is believed to be the largest antiquities theft case of its kind in the Cyprus's history, police seized objects dating back thousands of years from homes, storage sheds and vehicles where they were being hidden.
The artefacts include copper and silver coins, terracotta urns and clay and limestone figurines believed to date from the copper age to around 400BC.
Ten suspects were arrested in raids over the weekend, and authorities are searching for five others.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/cyprus-artefacts-police-foil-plot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/cyprus-artefacts-police-foil-plot
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| Posted 20-02-2010 at 05:46
Stolen art treasures recovered in Italy
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talian police have sealed off an illegal archaeological dig and recovered 108 stolen artefacts dating back more than 2,000 years.
The artefacts were excavated from tombs dating to the Daunian era, which preceded the Roman empire, in the southern region of Puglia. The pieces were expected to be trafficked on the illegal antiquities market.
Several sites were sealed off by police near the town of Rodi Garganico, in the province of Foggia on the Adriatic coast after routine checks by the Italian tax police, Corrado Palmiotti told AKI.
"It's an area rich in archaeology," he said.
Police said they had made no arrests.
Several vases, ornamental objects and spearheads were recovered by police on the Gargano peninsula. The objects date from between the 6th and 4th-centuries BC.
Daunia refers to the civilisation that dominated northern Puglia for more than 1,000 years until around the 4th century BC.
Italy is cracking down on the illegal export of cultural artefacts and art treasures considered part of its cultural heritage. Prominent museums, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles have recently returned art treasures considered to have questionable origins.
Italian authorities earlier this month announced they had recovered about 60,000 looted or stolen archaeological artefacts and works or art worth an estimated 165 million euros.
http://www.littleabout.com/news/62101,stolen-art-treasures-recovered-italy.html http://www.littleabout.com/news/62101,stolen-art-treasures-recovered-italy.html
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