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, 8 December 2025

Operation METHODICAL: Protecting London’s Art During a Nuclear Attack

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  On the 6 November 1972, detailed orders were issued by HQ United Kingdom Land Forces for the removal of major national art treasures from ...
Saturday, 6 December 2025

New Iraqi Museum Planned

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  The Iraqi government revealed on Saturday that preparations are underway to build a new national museum to showcase artifacts from multipl...
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Despite the Antiquities Trade being State-Controlled

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Chris Stringer (@ChrisStringer65) on Twitter Dec 2, 2025 Astonishing collection of >4000 Neolithic artefacts that artist Ai WeiWei col...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

Hungarian Collector Returns 183 Khmer Textiles and Artefacts to Cambodia

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Xinhua, '  Cambodia: Hungarian collector to return looted Khmer cultural heritage objects ', China Daily November 21, 2025 Cambodia ...
Friday, 21 November 2025

35 arrests in Bulgaria in a large art trafficking investigation

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                         Thracian rider and assorted tat                   A criminal network has been under investigatation or the traffick...
Thursday, 20 November 2025

A Single Coin "Rewrites" German History?

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                                                       .                                        From stories like this you'd believe tha...

Secrecy Surrounds former Whereabouts of Ancient Akkadian Seal Stolen from the Duhok Museum in 1991.

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                                                 In an apparent attempt to shield the owner of an illicitly-obtained antiquity in British ha...
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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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