The Antiquities Coalition | Pioneers Against Cultural Racketeering

Extraordinary Response to Antiquities Coalition, Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation Training Session

419 people from 32 countries registered for the session

United States and Morocco Strengthen Joint Fight Against Cultural Racketeering

Countries Sign MOU for Moroccan Archaeological and Ethnological Material

The 1970 UNESCO Convention: Looking to the Past—and the Future

New AC Story Map Marks Fiftieth Anniversary of 1970 UNESCO Convention

Congress Applies Anti-Money Laundering Laws to Antiquities Dealers

Legislation Follows Revelations that America’s Enemies Are Exploiting Regulatory Loopholes in Its $28.3 Billion Art Market

Think Tank Makes Recommendations for Strengthening the Legal Trade in Cultural Material

New Antiquities Coalition Policy Brief Proposes Multilateral Export Control Regimes to Fortify the Legitimate Trade in Cultural Objects

Antiquities Coalition Launches “Ten Most Wanted Antiquities” List

Campaign to Engage the Public in the Search for Missing Artifacts

Financial Crimes Task Force Report

Reframing U.S. Policy on the Art Market: Recommendations for Combating Financial Crimes

AC Executive Director Tess Davis Condemns Museums Displaying Relics without Provenance in LA Times Article

While working on his doctorate at Burapha University in Thailand, archaeologist Tanongsak Hanwong encountered a surplus of evidence that two massive stone lintels possessed by the Asian Art Museum of […]

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May 19, 2021
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From our start, we at the Antiquities Coalition have made use of a number of U.S. legal and policy tools to close U.S. borders to illicit antiquities, while increasing responsible cultural exchange. Read about those tools—and the impact we have made—here: theantiquitiescoalition.org/developing-imp…

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The Antiquities Coalition “provides a powerful example of what can be achieved through partnerships between governments and NGOs.”

— Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General

“The [Antiquities] Coalition, since its inception in March 2011, has shown great support and exerted utmost efforts to raise awareness and combat the looting and illegal trade of Egyptian antiquities and artifacts.”

— Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, former Minister of Antiquities

“The Antiquities Coalition, UNESCO, and other organizations have already sounded the alarm, and the U.S. should leverage their insights, networks, and activism to stem the flow of funds to ISIS from this trade.”

— Juan Zarate, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

“Egypt is working alongside regional and international partners such as the Antiquities Coalition to stem the flow of stolen antiquities.”

— Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Foreign Minister of Egypt

"The Antiquities Coalition [is] the foremost organization in the world for combating cultural racketeering."

— Hank Paulson, Chairman of Paulson Institute

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Comments Submitted on the Draft Policy on Cultural Heritage of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

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Antiquities Coalition Joins Launch of Book on Southeast Asian Patrimony

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