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	Saving Futures URL: http://www.savingfutures.com ODP description: Charlie Phillips investigates issues of cultural heritage management and preservation in India and Nepal through interviews nad research. Page title: Saving Futures : investigating issues in cultural heritage management and preservation
	Your Brush With The Law URL: http://www.yourbrushwiththelaw.com ODP description: Charles Vincent Sabba looks at some famous art crimes, forensic art and the art scene in New York. Page title: yourbrushwiththelaw.com
	Stolen Property or Finders Keepers? URL: http://home.att.net/~tisone/problem.htm ODP description: Dede Tisone-Bartels provides teacher's resources for considering the true ownership of works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world. Page title: Stolen Art or Finders Keepers Page description: 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
	Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich URL: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/cyprus/index.html ODP description: Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus Page title: From Cyprus to Munich Page description: 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.
	Find Stolen Art URL: http://www.findstolenart.com/ ODP description: Database aiming to assist UK police in the recovery and return of stolen antiques and to enable auction houses, collectors and dealers to exercise due diligence. Page title: Find Stolen Art - Home Page Page description: Online database of Stolen, Lost and Recovered Art and antiques.
	Gang Caught with 200,000 Artefacts URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4464605,00.html ODP description: Giles Tremlett reports in the Guardian that Spanish police have captured 100 archaeological robbers in an operation that netted a vast haul of antiques up to 5,000 years old. Page title: Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
	Stolen Art URL: http://www.stolenart.be ODP description: This Belgian initiative aims to assist the police in Belgium and elsewhere in the recovery and return of stolen antiques. Register stolen art pieces. Newsletters.
	Art Theft - Most Wanted Art URL: http://www.saztv.com/ ODP description: Search for the world's most wanted art. Page title: Art Theft - World's Most Wanted Art
	Museum Security Network: Art Crime URL: http://www.museum-security.org/artcrime.html ODP description: News reports of cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire and forgery worldwide. Page title: MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK: cultural property protection against malicious intent
	International Archive of Stolen Artefacts URL: http://www.iasa-online.com ODP description: A database with close-up photographs of objects. An independent resource dedicated to the retrieval of stolen artefacts through maximum publicity. Page title: IASA home page
	Price of Age URL: http://www.museum-security.org/cranwell/index.html ODP description: An electronic dissertation on the illicit trade of antiquities by Andrew Cranwell. Page title: The Price Of Age - An Investigation Into The Illict Trade Of Antiquities - Andrew Cranwell
	Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft URL: http://www.dowling.edu/library/papers/laura/theft.html ODP description: Librarian provides a bibliography and list of Internet resources on theft of antiquities.
	Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) URL: http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/projects/iarc/home.htm ODP description: At University of Cambridge to research and highlight damage caused by looting of archaeological sites. Publishes periodical Culture Without Context. Information on latest news, events, information, legal conventions, resources. Page title: The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre Page description: reseaching and reporting illicit antiquities
	Looting Question Bibliography URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/lootbib.html ODP description: Hugh Jarvis lists Internet and published resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting. Page title: The "Looting Question" Bibliography
	Swiss Recover 10,000 Stolen Antiquities URL: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/geneva/index.html ODP description: Archaeology magazine feature article by Andrew Slayman on one of the largest recoveries of stolen art treasures. Page title: Geneva Seizure Page description: 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.
	Britain Leads Illicit Trade in Rare Books URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4201560,00.html ODP description: The Guardian reports that Britain has become the centre for criminal traffick in ancient manuscripts and historic books. Page title: Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
	Object ID URL: http://www.object-id.com/ ODP description: Site describes rationale, use and contacts for Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to combat theft. Page title: Object ID: an international standard for describing art Page description: Welcome to the website of Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to help combat theft
	The Iraq War and Archaeology URL: http://iwa.univie.ac.at/ ODP description: Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting. Page title: IW&A Blog
	Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh URL: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/nineveh/index.html ODP description: Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite. Page description: Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the 1991 Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite
	The Art Loss Register URL: http://www.artloss.com/ ODP description: Operates a permanent international database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables, to assist law enforcement agencies in the battle against art theft. Page title: Home - The Art Loss Register