Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Monday, 19 January 2026

Egyptian Antiquities Inspector Convicted Over Involvement in Major Artefact Smuggling

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                                       .                                   In what is considered one of the most significant antiquities smu...
Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Russia Protests Detention of Archaeologist in Poland

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Screenshot from 2018 film:  Крымский мост. Сделано с любовью!   Russia has today summoned Krzysztof Krajewski the Polish ambassador to Mosco...
Friday, 9 January 2026

"It's incredibly sad and disappointing that anyone would choose to exploit Lincolnshire's rich heritage in this way."

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  The wheels grind on so slowly. The time between infringement and consequence in the UK are too long. Anyway, four years after suspicions w...
Sunday, 4 January 2026

Archaeological Looting in Venezuela

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Since the summer of 2010 until the present, Venezuela has been affected by a severe socioeconomic and political crisis . This began during t...
Friday, 2 January 2026

Time to Switch to laser shows and formation lightweight drones?

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                    A night of violencde and destruction              Fireworks will no longer be allowed on New Year’s Eve in the Netherla...
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Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Christmas 2025

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I am not going to wish anyone a Merry Christmas this year. These are dark times. .   “I came… where are the children?” Russians have kille...
Monday, 22 December 2025

The MAGAmerican view of History: Greenland and the US Heritage

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            Greenland, not part of America             The President of the United States of America, ostensibly speaking for the citizens o...
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Paul Barford
British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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