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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.
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"Let's gather together..."
Dr. Donny George, former Director of the Iraq Museum, calls on individuals and institutions around the world to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. in SAFE's Global Candlelight Vigil.
This coming April 10-12, on the fifth anniversary of the tragic event, take the opportunity to re-energize efforts to protect the world's cultural heritage by hosting a vigil. When you register your event with us, it will be listed so that others may see it and attend.
Our website features downloadable step-by-step tools to help you organize and publicize a vigil at your museum, college, university, with friends and family, and in your community. Make use of our easy-to-execute resources and tools such as:
- Vigil kits
- E-cards
- Announcement flyers
- Videos/films
- Press release template
- Vigil brochure
- Poster (shown here), postcard and other publicity tools designed for SAFE by the students at the W. D. Ford Career-Technical Center
Interested in attending a vigil? Find a location in your area here.
Or if you prefer, light a virtual candle and add your name to other supporters.
The SAFE Global Candlelight Vigil follows the warm reception we garnered last year when we initiated the project. This year, it coincides with a new exhibition at Chicago's Oriental Institute, entitled "Catastrophe! The Destruction and Looting of Iraq's Past", opening on April 10.
We have not forgotten. Please join us in commemoration.
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SAFE Tour with Oscar Muscarella
Friday, March 7th at 5:30 pm Dr. Oscar Muscarella, a specialist in Near Eastern art and archaeology, will once again lead a unique and thought-provoking SAFE Tour at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr.
Muscarella, a staff member at the Met since 1964, has been an outspoken
critic of the antiquities trade and the plunder of artifacts for the
past quarter century.
Learn
how unprovenanced artifacts are discovered and acquired. Hear "the
inside story" behind some of the Met's most interesting and famous Near
Eastern and Central Asian antiquities. Reserve a space for this captivating and informative tour today, only a couple of tickets are left! |
Just say no
 SAFE Advisor Professor Colin Renfrew will deliver a lecture entitled The Destruction of the Past: Time to Say No at New York University on Monday, March 10. All SAFE Members welcome.
Place and time:
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
6:00 PM, reception to follow FREE
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SAFE supports U.S. bilateral agreement with Cambodia
 We urge the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State to recommend continued import restrictions of antiquities from Cambodia as an effective means to curb the plunder of cultural heritage.
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In the news
- U.S. State Dept. - Cambodia MOU Extension Public Hearing, March 6
- Thai antiquities, resting uneasily
- Debate: the holes in Cleveland Museum's Apollo history
- U.S. Army pilot arrested for dealing in stolen Egyptian artifacts
- NYS archivist confesses to hundreds of document thefts
- Expert: tax scheme damages articacts
- Listen to four experts discuss the ongoing antiquities probe
- Antiquities probe focuses on Chicago Art Institute trustee
- History sold to the highest bidders?
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The latest at SAFECORNER
- Loans of Archaeological Material
- A Different View of Art Theft
- A new way forward for U.S. museums
- Operation Ghelas: some implications for coin collectors
- Link between the White-Levy and Fleischman collections
- Shelby White to return antiquities
- Protecting portable antiquities in the UK: a financial threat
- Sotheby's auctions rare antiquities
- Towards a forum for constructive dialogue
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