Artifacts

A Looting Matter: Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities

Cambodia has often featured in the Western imagination as a place of plunder and pilfering.  Temples and artefacts of exquisite beauty have exercised the interest of adventurers and buccaneers who looted with almost kleptocratic tendency. In 1924, the French novelist and future statesman André Malraux, proved himself one of Europe’s greatest adventurers in making off […]

Hobby Lobby Fined $3M Over Smuggled Iraqi Artifacts

David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby, speaks before a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
US federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and return ancient Iraqi artifacts which were smuggled from the Middle East after being intentionally mislabelled.