Peter Herdrich

Co-founder, The Antiquities Coalition; Preservationist; friend of archaeology; business consultant

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

🚨BREAKING NEWS: @TheArtNewspaper names owner and location of one of the Ten Most Wanted Antiquities.

The Kwer’ata Re’esu Icon is located in Portugal, owned by the Coimbra-based Isabel Reis Santos, heir of the Portuguese art historian Luiz Reis Santos

https://t.co/PkTnsrLDFO

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

We partnered with @EgyptianRescue to host a training on digitization, documentation, and preservation strategies for #museums. Learn more in our latest blog post: https://t.co/AxDBhxfA1l

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Ending 4 weeks of @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue digitization & museum collections training with #REORG instruction with Hebatallah Abdelhamid. Honored to have @USAmbtoAlgeria Aubin and other @USEmbAlgiers colleagues joining at Bardo Museum for tomorrow's commendation ceremony.

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

At the Bardo Museum in Algiers where our @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue digitization training continues with EHRF's Ehab Naguib on digital photography and photogrammetry with Bardo staff. Thanks all, especially @USEmbAlgiers our funders and colleagues. #Algeria #culturalheritage

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

At the Bardo Museum in Algiers on #AfricaDay for @CombatLooting @EgyptianRescue @USEmbAlgiers & Ministry of Culture training on digitization. Equipment delivery leads to set up and instruction for staff from six Algerian museums.

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

@CombatLooting @Abdelhamid_EHRF offered free, open, online, Arabic language instruction in museum digitization. We got 1,120 registrants! Unprecedented Scaling up works https://t.co/MmgOvQGLIa @CLIRnews @ALIPHFoundation Thx for funding @USEmbAlgiers and to Algerian Min of Culture

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Eid Mubarak to friends celebrating around the world!

#Eid2023

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

Mark your calendar 📅 Next Wednesday, @helena_arose our Project Director, will be speaking at @StMarysMD discussing how Indiana Jones got it wrong.

Check out the details ➡️ https://t.co/pxrsh6GTnn

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

Our ten most wanted antiquities list serves as an illustrative guide to missing artifacts from around the world. Take a look at the full list and help us #CombatLooting: https://t.co/CTTrOcCbGw

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Please join us as we discuss practical solutions to on the ground challenges, values we adhere to in cultural heritage preservation, and a bit of international policy as well.

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

📢 REGISTER NOW: @pherdrich co-founder of the Antiquities Coalition and Project Director of five #CulturalHeritagePreservation projects in Iraq, will join @colgateuniv on November 10 to discuss his approach to preservation in the region: https://t.co/FXAJpPcqli

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

@lajkonika @colgateuniv @CombatLooting Excited to speak @colgateuniv. Register to join virtually on Th 11/4, 4:15pm US East, GMT -5:00 at https://t.co/ZY8VBfah7t for lessons learned on my work w/ @CombatLooting @CLIRnews @USAIDMiddleEast @USEmbBaghdad & @ALIPHFoundation in #Iraq. Thanks Prof Guile for the invitation!

[Carolyn Guile @lajkonika]

📣Coming up on 11/10 @colgateuniv Emergency Interventions in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Iraq: A Conversation with Peter Herdrich @CombatLooting https://t.co/904HqrvoEO

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Congratulations to Tess, as well as @PGerstenblith and @artcrimeprof both thanked in the credits, for their contributions.

[Tess Davis @Terressa_Davis]

So many statues without feet! 😯

Excited to have mine there with those of the Duryodhana, Bhima, @iamjohnoliver, and @kumailn on yesterday's @LastWeekTonight.

Thanks again to all involved in putting together this great episode on the need to @CombatLooting.

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

As #UNGA starts, an overview of the project I am directing with Yazidi partners, @CombatLooting and @YazdaOrg, w/generous funding from @USAIDMiddleEast, on video documentation of #intangibleculturalheritage & sharing Yazidi heritage in IDP camps with kids https://t.co/L4b4zA9yXE

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

Today, the United States government returned thirty cultural treasures worth tens of millions of dollars to the Kingdom of Cambodia, including a monumental sandstone sculpture of Ganesha, one of the AC's "Ten Most Wanted Antiquities."

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Interested to see what the #WadiAlFann project produces. Oldest of the old combined with newest of the new. Attention to the Nabatean heritage is appreciated. We covered Hegra back in my days at Archaeology magazine. @AlUla

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Alda Benjamen is a great colleague on our @combatlooting work in Iraq and a very serious scholar. Congratulations, Alda, and consider picking it up.

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

Fionnuala Rogers' policy brief for the AC is here, https://t.co/BVd1V270j6. Have a look and dig into her analysis of a back door to Europe for cultural racketeers.

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

#ICYMI Think Tank author Fionnuala Rogers and other experts spoke with Marketplace on "Will Brexit turn the U.K. into a hub for the trade in looted antiquities?," the subject of her latest policy brief with the AC.

Listen here: https://t.co/GzIBLEB1Y0

[Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting]

A big congratulations to @AnthroPaulicy of @ATHARProject for this well deserved honor.

Thanks for all you’re doing to keep this issue on the radar of Big Tech and realize much needed change!

[Peter Herdrich @pherdrich]

The Telegraph https://t.co/zrhhT7T6Fs on @CombatLooting's policy brief https://t.co/9Yi8G1Ymh8 arguing to fix trade regs that risk post-Brexit Britain becoming a hub for illicit antiquities. All credit to brief author Fionnuala Rogers of @UKBlueShield and proud to have edited.