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Last month's selection of articles about incidents with cultural
property:

Petition to save a library in peril
Archaeologist Recalls Jungle Clash
Art gift threatened by gallery plan to charge
HK says return to China puts noose on smugglers
British Art Market Fears Collapse Under EU Tax Burden
Experts Demand Hunt For Owners Of NaziLooted Art
Britain says will not return marbles to Greece
Art dealer to stars arrested
Firing of Berlin's Jewish Museum director unleashes fury
Art thieves plague Cambodian religious structure
Authorities investigating sale of Cincinnati schools'
paintings
US art dealer charged with defrauding celebrities
Egypt police nab smugglers of rare antiquities
Two charged, but masterpiece still missing
Historic group says don't save arts center
Bits of a czarist treasure mysteriously resurface
Picassos offered on disbanded www site
Illegal cyberspace arttrafficking ring broken up
Museum thieves steal Nigeria's heritage
Mongolia court says museum belongs to excommunist
Twicestolen Picasso painting recovered again
Poland retrieves cultural treasure
Stolen Klee Returned to Phillips
Deep Cuts Proposed For Arts
Nazis and Their Allies in Art Theft
Library in Peril
'Vibration and dust from the building works could cause
substantial damage to artworks'
Cemetery will be cited as one of the nation's 11 most
endangered historic places
Exodus of Chinese art from Hong Kong
Children suing stepmother to seize $800,000 painting
U.S. Customs Returns Stolen Manuscripts to the Vatican
Trying to Save the Neglected Side of Ellis Island
Britain's Tate Gallery shut by fire
Perry widow puts Wimbledon museum trophies up for sale
Collection of Chinese art is being mysteriously broken
up
Bremerton to Lose USS Missouri as a museum
Activists seek to save 19thcentury houses
Veterans battle for WAC Museum on history of women's
role in Army
Opponents claim o10.9m stone box will damage integrity
of Fitzwilliam's classical facade
Two Missing Books: COTTA, 1623. CAIUS, 1544
Costume drama after flood
U.S. shuns de Young as bad risk
Art dealer says sale cost him o200,000
Antiques expert lied to police
Fossil prices rise as collectors dig natural history
Greece renews bid to retrieve Parthenon marbles
Gypsies to join suit against Swiss over Nazi loot
selling off the family silver
Moscow's Museum Badly Underfunded
New book by scientist proves Shroud of Turin is a
painting
Belgium Art Thefts
Red faces as thieves raid Ferrari rally
fire in an 11thcentury Hindu temple
Wroclaw University robbed of valuable 18thcentury
paintings
HK university allows display of democracy sculptur
Italian Vandals Strike At Florence's Neptune Again
FBI: Paintings Found in Cleveland
Australia Backs Greece on Marbles
Amber Room, Schleimann's Treasure (gold from Troy)(plus
several other stories about the Amber Room.
Man duped scores of art buyers
BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLES ABOUT LOOTED ART
Woman accused of deception turns tables on Sotheby's
Top art dealers investigated for possible antitrust
violations
Police seize o1m pirate tape of latest Spielberg
American curator pulls out of Ashmolean job
A pornographer's view: new censorship act is too vague
for comfort
Music industry fights cyber piracy
Panel Clears Way for Razing of Former Van de Kamp's
Bakery
N.Y. Art Dealers Under Investigation, Justice Dept.
Reportedly Checking for Possible Price Collusion
Street Art Wars
A furious dispute has erupted over an addition to a
medieval castle in Normandy
Tapestry of carpet fraud begins to unravel
Street Artist Federal ruling stands; U.S. Supreme Court
rejects Giuliani appeal
Welcome to SoHo: Artist Persecution Capital of the World
Not all historic buildings can be saved, Bits of history
return as valuable objects
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR AFRICA'S ANCIENT ROCKART
MASTERPIECES, THREATENED BY NATURE AND MAN
Grand Forks Arts Organizations: Update On Status And
Needs
U.S. Officials Probe Art Dealers, Auctions
China improves relic protection
Culture a new weapon in fight to reclaim mean streets of
Naples
Greece Still Going for All the Marbles
Artifact thieves take Guatemala church's archangel


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