Mayanists and Mesoamerica people: does anyone happen to have a scan of or access to Sylvanus Morley's 1933 and/or 1934 field notebook/diary? I'm looking for something that would be on one page or less but have had no luck accessing the diary.

Call for Abstracts: “The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Comparative Legal and Policy Agenda”, 14 May, Warsaw. This workshop is fully funded for selected attendees, but only members of the CPP4ALL Cost Action can attend. Sign up to join the action here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

A great opportunity to publish.

Join our Chair at the International Symposium on "Cultural Property Protection: An enabler for cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region", 20–21 April, Nicosia, Cyprus. Details and Registration here:

Would you like to visit us to work on topics related to Cultural Heritage and Crime? The UNESCO Chair will host a funded Short Term Scientific Mission through COST Action Cultural Property Protection for All. Only members of the Action can apply so request to join here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

New Publication! "Variably Legal and Irregularly Regulated: Global Markets in Collectable Antiquities, Wildlife, and Fossils" by Annette Hübschle, Simon Mackenzie, and our chair, Donna Yates. In the exciting book "Variably Legal Markets Rethinking Markets and Crime"

Interested in art crime, antiquities trafficking, provenance, repatriation, or cultural property law? Sign up for the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List for learning, conference, and work opportunities! anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities

Blog post! Performance of Security at the Drents Museum Helmet Return Press Conference www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2026/04/perf...

They "TA-DA'd" the recovered helmet! They even gave it a "drie...twee...een!" before they removed the cloth. Then there was silence followed by a slow, uncertain applause. A very "is this a clapping moment?" vibe from the attendees of the Helmet of Coțofenești press conference.

Performance of security at the press conference to announce the recovery of the stolen Helmet of Coțofenești.

Cambridge Elements Critical Heritage Studies seeks book proposals. We're looking for exciting, boundary pushing methods, theories, ideas that are too long for a single journal paper, but to pressing to wait on. It's a series for exciting heritage work. Let's see it! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

Join us at the REVITALISER Cultural Property Protection Summer School in Cyprus. Participants explore cutting-edge topics including remote aensing, AI-based analysis, criminological approaches to heritage crime. We can keep the fee low because it's subsidised by the EU revitaliser.eu/summer-schoo...

Cultural Property Protection for All offers Conference Support Grants for members. Grants up to 1000 EUR to present at a conference relate to CPP. The Chair is an active member of this network; if you aren't a member of this COST Network, request to join the Action here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

Sign up for the Cultural Property Protection for All COST Action: it is a lot of EU funding for networking on heritage provenance, monitoring, crime, and protection. Travel grants, funded events, etc. If you work in this area, join up: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

Consider following @unescochair-chec.bsky.social for news and opportunities from the new UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime. Also on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/unes...?

New Publication: "Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis" co-authored by @profdonnayates.blsky.social and Emily Peacock. ln the new Elgar Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

I know I'm quite quiet here, but I wanted to let you all know about my new role: UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime. Thinking about the Heritage Crime of the present and the future. I'm looking forward to collaborating on this topic.

Read all of antiquities dealer Michel van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here. It is spectacular. #artcrime #archaeology www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/11/read...

Through the narratives of violence and control in auction sales of Pacific cultural objects, I consider consumer desire: "Marketing, Narratives, and Consumer Desire within Auction Catalogs of Cultural Objects" out now, Open Access, in Advances in Archaeological Practice. doi.org/10.1017/aap....

Colleagues at Maastricht University. I'm running for University Council. I would truly appreciate your vote. Take a moment and vote here: elections.maastrichtuniversity.nl and if you would like to see the platform I'm running on, here: leadmaastricht.nl

A film that takes place where you’re from

Holy heck, and this is being used to sell luxury handbags? This is very my research times a million.

Well I've just submitted my application to create a new UNESCO chair in Global Heritage and Emerging Crime. Let's see what they think!

I’m looking to hire a postdoc (100%, 22 months, salary significantly above the standard postdoc in Austria or Germany). The position is set to begin on 1 June 2025. The project explores how biases in the fossil record affect our ability to use past biodiversity data for modern conservation. 1/3

Today, I'm on strike.

🟥 Maastricht University is on strike today to protest devastating cuts in higher ed 🟥 👉 Show up @ Vrijthof @ 12:30! 👉 Bring your colleagues! 👉 Post your photos & tag us! 👉 Help us to spread the word - share this post! #WOinACTIE #DefendMaastrichtUniversity #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #StakingHO

Today is not just about UM but also about Limburg and education in NL! You are still in time to convince colleagues and students to join. Does somebody need convincing? That is why WOinActie created a video series addressing the key questions. Visit the video series here: edu.nl/paw8e #WoinActie

The strike in Maastricht is on, come and join us! 🟥 Organised by FNV, AOb & MOSA. Here's the plan: 🕛 12:00 Meet & walk to Vrijthof 🎶 12:30 Music + free fries 📢 13:00 Speeches & music 🚶‍♀️ 14:00 March through city 🛍️ 14:45 Strike market Full info & updates 👉 edu.nl/xaa3q #WOinActie

People interested in antiquities trafficking research, take a moment to read "In Want of Methodological Rigor: A Critique of Suber et al. (2022)" by Michelle Fabiani and @dremilinesmith.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Belfast: Two men charged after 'high value piece of art' stolen

Sigh. I have a photograph that I took of that door in 2007 behind me in my office right now. A small but painful loss.

Roban piezas históricas de iglesia de San Agustín en Quito y la comunidad reacciona

I've spent a lot of time on Leonardo Patterson and have published no less than 4 academic journal papers that involve him. I suppose I always thought I'd meet him. I'll share the papers here (all open access). They barely scratch the surface of this man's remarkable life in the illicit antiquities.

If anyone here has access to a PDF of this article, I'd love a copy. The amount of my life that I've spent on Patterson's life is no small amount. It would be interesting to see what the times said about him.

Leonardo Patterson, 82, High-Flying Antiquities Dealer Brought Low, Dies

Shakespeare First Folio back on show 27 years after it was stolen

Cyprus Customs returns stolen ancient coins to Department of Antiquities

MPF repatria fósseis de 100 mi de anos levados ilegalmente do país

After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home

PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter helps repatriate Honduran heritage

Mystery Surrounds Artefacts Allegedly Stolen from Old Goa Excavation Site Amidst Police Investigation into Activists

Art Institute Of Chicago Returned A Sculpture To Nepal But Obscured Its Connection To A Wealthy Donor

Cambodia reclaims two looted artefacts www.khmertimeskh.com/501661215/ca...

New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

Does anyone know of a heritage, tourism, museum, memory studies journal that publishes short reflexive pieces? Notes from the field? One of my PhDs wrote a compelling reflection on fieldwork at Chinese dark heritage/genocide memorial sites (~3000 words). I would love to see it published somewhere.

‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked

Art crime, art law and provenance research opportunities for 3 April! www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/04/art-... Don't forget to sign up to get the (monthly) list in your email: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities

Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

I'm sending another opportunities list out today. Reply with anything to include and don't forget to sign up to receive it.

Art Expert Accused of Duping Prince and Palace of Versailles Stands Trial