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Tampa Museum of Art announces Branko van Oppen as Curatorial Consultant for Ancient Art Van Oppen has published several books and articles. TAMPA, FLA .-The Tampa Museum of Art announced the appointment of Branko van Oppen as the Curatorial Consultant for Ancient Art. With his expertise in Hellenistic queenship (from the time of Alexander to the reign of Cleopatra, ca. 336-30 BCE), van Oppen will bring new perspectives to the Tampa Museum of Art’s repertoire of Greek and Roman art—one of the largest and most significant collections in the southeastern United States. Van Oppen was offered th...

On February 5, 2021, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a notice [Public Notice: 11346] of receipt on November 9, 2020, of a request for cultural property protection from the Government of the Republic of Albania, under Article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Albania’s request seeks US import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material representing Albania’s cultural patrimony.

“The Armenpress.am website (https://armenpress.am/rus/news/1043451.html) has recently announced that an exhibition of carpets, which were illegally removed from the Shusha Carpet Museum on 1 November 2020, will

Academic tussle as ancient relics from black market brought into country We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Michaela Boland Save Normal text size Advertisement A pair of 2000-year-old bark manuscripts that promise to unlock some mysteries of the birth of Buddhism have turned up in Australia, sparking an ethical and legal debate about whether they should be here. University of Sydney academic Dr Mark Allon sourced the ancient relics on the black market and then in 2019 established a crowdfunding campaign, seeking to raise $30,000 to fund...

January 19, 2021 U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey David Satterfield and Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Ersoy signed the disastrous bilateral agreement on cultural property which grants Turkey legal rights over the vast religious-cultural heritage of the region’s indigenous peoples and other minority populations. Photo Credit: US Embassy in Turkey ANCA, Hellenic American Leadership Council, In Defense of Christians to Work with Incoming Biden Administration to Safeguard Rights of Indigenous and Minority Populations WASHINGTON—In its final hours, the Trump Administr...