Prevention of Illicit Trafficking Project - ACOR

Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property Project at the American Center of Research

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12 Looted #Antiquities Returned to #Lebanon

#illict_trafficking #Lebanon #USA

https://t.co/kxHyUpaDr0

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#Turkey recovers 1,100-year-old Hebrew #Bible and more than 100 #Roman #coins in smuggling raids.
#Illicit_trafficking
https://t.co/x9rV4q69Rb

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#Iraq displays 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by #Italy
#illicit_trafficking
https://t.co/TjDel5CSel

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Dr. Ahmed Kzzo presented about the project at the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East #ICAANE held in #Copenhagen last week.

The congress is one of the most important events related to Middle Eastern cultural heritage and archaeology.

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#Iraqi court confirms #ISIS smuggled artifacts through #Turkey, #Syria
#illicit_trafficking
https://t.co/6cq98wHAkO

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Cultural Antiquities Task Force Organizes Law Enforcement Workshops in #Cambodia and #Ecuador
#USA
https://t.co/J24jgLRPuq

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To put their newfound knowledge into practice, the participants were given projects to work on for a month.

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We have successfully completed the second level of the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property course in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities of #Jordan.
#PreventionOfIllicitTrafficking #CulturalHeritageProtection
#USA

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The course covered a range of topics, including dealing with antiquities-trafficking cases, forgeries and replicas of cultural property, and how to repatriate cultural property.

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#USA #Italy #Egypt #illicit_trafficking
https://t.co/dQo9Nwt5op

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Antiquity returned to #Iraq
#USA #illicit_trafficking
https://t.co/rK0O4HnpLI

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#Vatican returns pieces of #Parthenon to #Greece
https://t.co/GrPLsYEldZ

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Hundreds of looted antiquities return to #Cambodia
#illicit_trafficking #USA #UK
https://t.co/ClT2hz1eWP

[Patty Gerstenblith @PGerstenblith]

I'm pleased to announce the new website of the US Committee of the Blue Shield: https://t.co/hhotH0FtA0

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Another beautiful artifact that was returned to #Jordan from #USA is a bronze pitcher with snake-shaped handle dated to circa 300-200 BCE.

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For the first anniversary of the reparation of nine artifacts, we are providing some information on the items and their cultural and historic significance.

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Astarte or ʿAshtart is the goddess of sexual love and fertility and is associated with war. The goddess was one of the most important goddesses in the ancient Near East and has been returned to #Jordan after years of investigation in #USA about the legality of ownership.

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The nine returned artifacts reflect the cultural and religious richness of #Jordan. From these artifacts are two tombstones with Aramaic inscriptions, from Zoara (the biblical Zoar), dated back to 500 AD