ART THEFT / MOST WANTED ART / RECOVERY PROJECT Search for the Worlds Most Wanted Art UPDATE June 2002 MAJOR CASES STOLEN ART ART RECOVERY ART THEFT LINKS Manet, Chez Tortoni Stolen March 18, 1990 NATPE Visitors TV INFO Saztv.com Web-Site Map INQUIRIES & DISCLAIMER SPONSOR INFORMATION COPYRIGHT 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 SAZ PRODUCTIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE SEARCH FOR LOST ART The ...

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite ...

A Problem Based Learning Lesson about the true ownership of valuable works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world ...

Looters stripped churches in Cyprus, removing an estimated 15, 000 to 20, 000 icons; several dozen major frescoes and mosaics dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century; and thousands of chalices, wooden carvings, crucifixes, and Bibles.

Bartholdi's Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg Highlights Missing Bronze. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg This statue is a gift from the city of Strasbourg, France in appreciation of the help it received during the war of 1870. It was erected in Basel, Switzerland, near the train station in 1895. A numbered artist's proof was stolen from a private residence in France ...

In early 1996, Swiss police raided four bonded warehouses in Geneva containing 10, 000 artifacts, most of them probably smuggled from Italy, valued at $35 million, one of the largest antiquities seizures ever.

Gold phiale or libation bowl was seized by U.S. Customs after being imported illegally from Italy.

Why is the Kanazawa College of Arts involved in illicit trade in antiquities During the Turkish military invasion to Cyprus in 1974, many of the archaeological and religious sites were damaged by bombings. What followed the Turkish invasion, was an orgy of destruction in the northern occupied part of the island: sacrilege, plundering, desolation, illicit trade in antiguities, and smuggling. The ...