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October 1999
- Doar, Bruce
Off
With Their Heads Archaeology Online News (October 28, 1999).
Six heads removed by thieves from clay statuary of Buddhist figures
were returned to the temple from which they were taken and ceremonially
restored to their proper function.
September 1999
- Athens News
Agency Stolen
Antiquities from Ancient Corinth Museum Discovered in Miami
(Athens, September
15, 1999). Authorities in Miami, Florida have retrieved most of the
artifacts stolen from one of Greece's most significant archaeological
museums almost a decade ago and are preparing to return them.
- Schuster, Angela
M. Maya
Stela Fragment Returned Archaeology Online News (September
3, 1999). A Late Classic stela fragment from the site of El Peru has
been returned to Guatemala. Ian Graham, an archaeologist at Harvard's
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, identified the piece
and the current owner returned it as a gesture of goodwill.
- Rose, Mark
Steinhardt
Loses Appeal Archaeology Volume 52 No. 5
(September/October 1999). On July 12, the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed a District Court ruling that the fourth-century Sicilian
bowl purchased by New York collector Michael Steinhardt should be
returned.
- Cooper, Martha
Looters Foiled Archaeology Volume 52 No. 5 (September/October
1999). Last December an archaeological enthusiast in Belize persuaded
looters in the midst of clearing a tomb to stop and let him record
the contents. The materials were subsequently recovered by the Department
of Archaeology in Belize.
May
1999
- Slayman, Andrew
L. Getty
Returns Italian Artifacts Archaeology Volume 52 No. 3 (May/June
1999). After determining that they had been stolen, Getty curator
Marion True returned two pieces of sculpture and a drinking cup to
Italy.
- Rose, Mark
Hoard
Returned Archaeology Volume 52 No. 3 (May/June 1999). In
a March ceremony at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC, businessman
William I. Koch announced that he is returning to Turkey over 1,600
coins illegally excavated 15 years ago.
- Slayman, Andrew
Khmer
Site Looted Archaeology Volume 52 No. 3 (May/June 1999).
Banteay Chhmar, a twelfth-century site near the Thai border, has suffered
severe looting in the last six months. Banteay Chhmar was included
on the World Monuments Fund's 1998-99 list of the world's 100 most
endangered sites.
April 1999
- U.S. Attorney's
Office, Southern District of New York Press
Release (New York, April 26, 1999). Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney
for the Southern District of New York, announced that they will return
a priceless medieval carved wood panel to the Republic of Turkey.
- U.S. Customs
Service Press
Release (New York, April 16, 1999). U.S. Customs Commissioner
Raymond W. Kelly officially returned to the Israeli government an
antique torah crown which was stolen from Israel and recovered by
the U.S. Customs Service.
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February 1999
- U.S. Attorney's
Office, Southern District of New York Press
Release (New York, February 24, 1999). Mary Jo White, the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that an
18th-century manuscript seized by the Government from Sotheby's has
been ordered forfeited to the U.S. for eventual return to the Mexican
National Archives.
January
1999
- Bocharov,
Petko Bulgaria:
Police Fight Theft of Antiquities, Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty (Sofia, January 4, 1999). Colonel Cyril Radev reported
that nearly $1 billion worth of antiquities were prevented from being
illegally exported to the West last year.
- Schuster, Angela
Maya
Art Returned, Archaeology Volume 52 No. 1 (January/February
1999). The Denver Art Museum returned a carved wooden lintel taken
from the site of El Zotz in Guatemala and sold to the museum before
the U.S. had a law prohibiting importation of pre-Columbian art from
Guatemala. "Returning it was simply the right thing to do,"
said Denver Art Museum director Lewis Sharp.
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