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news & updates highlights developments in the world of cultural heritage preservation, delivers the latest information about SAFE,
and features ways to help stem the looting and illicit trade of antiquities.
This month, you can hear Dr. Lucille Roussin speak about the legal perspective on who owns the past and the importance of its preservation, and you can attend Ricardo St. Hilaire and Katherine Hart's discussion of The Medici Conspiracy. Additionally, Dr. Randall White has written a fascinating story about a fish in his new book on the Abri du Poisson Affair. All this plus Members-only exclusives and the latest cultural conservation news.
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What is cultural heritage?
 Explore some answers with SAFE Member and
Advisor Dr. Lucille Roussin in the second of a three-part lecture series Preservation Imperative, sponsored by SAFE and New York's Bayside Historical Society.
Also discussed will be the body of laws concerning antiquities, which emerged primarily in the last century. This young field of law struggles to define itself, even as legal issues arise around the burgeoning trade in objects of cultural heritage.
The lecture takes place at 3 pm on Sunday, May 20, at the Bayside Historical Society.
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The Medici Conspiracy in New Hampshire
 On May 31, join Ricardo St. Hilaire, Grafton County Attorney and SAFE Vice
President, and Katherine Hart, Associate Director, Hood Museum of Art,
for a discussion of the issue of preserving ancient sites and the
antiquities they contain as discussed in the book The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums, winner of the 2006 SAFE Beacon Award.
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The fish sculpture controversy
Dr. Randall White, NYU Professor and SAFE
Member, details in his new book, L'affaire de L'abri du poisson, the first major initiative in the French government's long and ongoing struggle to protect its prehistoric antiquities from pillaging and exportation.
The Gorge d'Enfer is a steep-sided tributary of the Vézère Valley of southwest France. Among other prehistoric treasures, it contains a rock shelter with a 25,000 year-old sculpted salmon on its ceiling. This bas-relief is surrounded by chisel and drill marks left in 1912 when an attempt was made to extract it for sale to a German museum. The Swiss archaeologist Otto Hauser, very active at the time in the region, has long been blamed for this aborted attempt at antiquities trafficking.
Using public and private archives in France, Germany and the US, Randall White recounts this complicated affair step by step, dispensing with the myth that the sculpture was saved by a simple, forceful intervention by the French prehistorian, Denis Peyrony. In actuality, the administrative and legal procedures required to save the sculpture took more than three years.
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 For members only
Robbing The Cradle of Civilization
--A one-hour DVD documentary on the theft of antiquities from the Iraq
Museum and ancient sites throughout Iraq. Directed and written by Robin
Benger. The Toronto Star calls Robbing The Cradle of Civilization a "stunning documentary". "The
film does quite a good job of explicitly tracing the illicit
digging/smuggling/dealer network and manages even to interview some
dealers, local small time in the Mid East, and one or two big time in
the US. Also good information on what countries are the most egregious
offenders." --SAFE member Cynthia Bates Sold to institutions for $325, now available to SAFE members for only $45 US including shipping and handling in the US. We thank The Filmmakers Library for this generous offer. |
 Not yet a member? Time to renew?
Do it now. For a limited time, join or renew for
$65 or more and receive a signed hardcover copy of this important book (shipping in the US included):
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World by Roger Atwood, a Winner of SAFE Beacon Award.
According to SAFE Advisor Patty Gerstenblith,
"This book contributes more than any other publication in more than 30
years to an understanding of the devastation to cultural heritage
caused by site looting and to the search for solutions."
If you already own a copy, the book makes a great gift. Stealing History retails for $25.95; SAFE thanks Roger Atwood for his support by making this exceptional offer possible.
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What does SAFE do?
Check out our newly updated What we do section where you will see an array of past, current and upcoming activities, projects and programs. As we make future plans we'd like to hear from you.
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In the news
- Salvage of the Nanhai I begins in South China Sea
- Art museum limits its antiquities acquisitions
- 32 heritage idols and artefacts go missing
- India: Udaygiri Caves monastery threatened by smugglers
- Boulder covered with petroglyphs stolen near Yuma
- Shelby White interview in the NY Sun
- Egypt will request loan of artifacts
- ICE returns plundered pre-Columbian head to Mexico
- Italy's List Of Ancient Treasures At Cleveland Museum
- India, Others, Step Up Antiquities Scrutiny
- New dam to submerge section of Achaemenid Royal Road
- Is the U.S. Protecting Foreign Artifacts? Don't Ask
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SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone, Inc. creates educational programs and media campaigns to raise public awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage world-wide. SAFE is a coalition of professionals in communications, media, and advertising working alongside experts in the academic, legal and law enforcement communities. SAFE is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and has no political affiliations.
We wish to thank the Museum Security Network Mailinglist and other sources for their work. |
SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone ©2007 All Rights Reserved.
phone: 201-626-3460
web: http://www.savingantiquities.org |
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