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The payment will settle a civil suit brought by U.S. officials who accused Douglas A.J. Latchford of being a major dealer of looted antiquities. Federal officials announced Thursday that the [...]

Madrid: The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has issued the following press release: The Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) has ratified the sentence of 3 [...]

May 15AMMAN The Jerash Magistrates Court sentenced an individual to one year in prison and imposed a fine of JD3,000 for intentionally damaging archaeological artifacts in the city. The court's [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- The following information was released by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): Utah Court Upholds Presidential Authority to Establish National Monuments A Utah federal judge [...]

Byline: Nadeem Badshah A retired British geologist is to be released from an Iraqi prison after his 15-year jail sentence for smuggling antiquities was quashed, according to his family and [...]

The Manhattan district attorney's office arranged the transfer of items it had seized, including a fresco from a town that was covered in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius [...]

Byline: By, Ryan Fahey The British dad-of-two locked up in Iraq for smuggling ancient artefacts has been sent to an infamous jail where inmates have been tortured to death. Retired [...]

Byline: By, Alahna Kindred The family of a British geologist who has been jailed in Iraq are pleading for him to come home. Government 'fell asleep at wheel' as Brit [...]

Byline: By, Ryan Fahey The government 'fell asleep at the wheel' before a Brit dad-of-two was Brit jailed for 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artefacts out of the country [...]

Byline: Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and agencies The former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological treasures that may [...]

Byline: Oscar Holland, CNN | Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) -- A disgraced American antiquities dealer accused of running a multi-million-dollar looting network via his New York gallery was this week [...]

Byline: Aqeel Najim, CNN (CNN) -- A 66-year-old British man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Iraq after he was found guilty of stealing antiquities while on [...]

Byline: Anne Davies In 2017, Douglas Latchford was under pressure. Once feted by the Cambodian government and acclaimed as an international authority on south-east Asian antiquities, the Thai-based collector was [...]

Byline: SIMON DRUKER A former director of the Louvre Museum in Paris is facing charges related to trafficking and fraud accusations. Jean-Luc Martinez was charged Wednesday night, following a multi-year [...]

Byline: Arthur Villator / Shutterstock.com (The Center Square) - Fishermen in Massachusetts and New Jersey are challenging a Biden administration proclamation in court. The fishermen have filed a lawsuit, Fehily [...]

LONDON -- The following information was released by the Metropolitan Police Department: A burglar who stole a lifetime's collection of antique coins from a world-renowned collector has been sentenced in [...]

Byline: Peter Whoriskey; Malia Politzer The Denver Art Museum is preparing to return four antiquities to Cambodia following a news media collaboration that reported the pieces are linked to a [...]

The Parisian gallery Cyble is seeking reimbursement for an Egyptian stele that was seized last year in New York as part of a wide-ranging investigation into antiquities trafficking. The gallery [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) and partners sued the Trump administration today challenging [...]

Byline: Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) -- Egypt has said that it will file a civil lawsuit after the sale of an ancient statue at auction last week. The stone head, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court issued four decisions on Wednesday, including ones on international terrorism, whistle-blowers in securities cases and civil rights suits filed by prisoners. International Terrorism The court [...]

The packages that made their way from Israel and the United Arab Emirates to retail outlets owned by Hobby Lobby, the seller of arts and craft supplies, were clearly marked [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally smuggling thousands of ancient clay artifacts into the United States from Iraq, [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally smuggling thousands of ancient clay artifacts into the United States from Iraq, [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood, The New Mexican A federal judge on Friday sentenced a pair of Santa Feans to prison terms for immigration fraud and crimes stemming from their part in [...]

SKOPJE, October 6, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Macedonian Public Prosecutor's Office charged 13 people with offenses against cultural heritage, Macedonian Interior (MoI) affairs spokesman Toni Angelovski told a press [...]

Byline: Joseph Dussault Nearly 50 years after the first lunar landing, an artifact from the Apollo 11 mission has become the center of a new legal dispute. Federal prosecutors are [...]

On December 15, 2017, the District Attorney for New York County, New York, formed a new unit within the District Attorney's Office that will focus on stolen antiquities. The new [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance--together with Earthjustice on behalf of [...]

(JURIST) - Five Native American tribes filed suit Monday against US President Donald Trump after he announced his decision to reduce the size of both Utah`s Bears Ears National Monument [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Sierra Club: Hours after President Donald Trump issued a proclamation taking an axe to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, conservation [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: A man who smuggled ancient artifacts out of Pakistan and [...]

Byline: ED ADAMCZYK WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. government filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking the return of antiquities plundered by the Islamic State. The civil complaint for forfeiture [...]