This year, on November 14, the Museo di Arte Classica at Sapienza University — in the historic Odeion — will host the 3rd Conference: “Databases and Archives as Tools to Combat Crimes Against Cultural Heritage.” www.art-test.com/en/databases...

The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database (CHARD) is a charity to protect the world’s cultural heritage, especially moveable objects that may be at risk Locating stolen and looted objects and fighting the illicit trade in art and antiquities chardfoundation.org

📢 Calling all #CulturalHeritage experts! Join the ENIGMA Workshop: Safeguarding Heritage 🏛️ 🗓️ 30 Oct 2025 | Online | 90 min ⚠️ Limited places – if a session is full, you’ll be offered the next slot. 🔗 Register: forms.gle/LwzyhjoYZnfG...

📢 Calling all #CulturalHeritage experts! Join the ENIGMA Training Workshop: Safeguarding Heritage 🏛️ 🗓️ 30 Oct 2025 | Online | 90 min ⚠️ Limited places – if a session is full, you’ll be offered the next slot. 🔗 Register: forms.gle/X4m1urAp84RQ...

🌍 Cultural heritage is a silent victim of conflict and illicit trafficking. On 25 November 2025, in Brussels, Blue Shield Belgium will host a full day of reflection: “Trafficking and Conflict: Challenges for Cultural Heritage Today.”

The ninth edition of Operation Pandora, an international operation targeting the trafficking of cultural goods, has led to 80 arrests and the seizure of 37,727 items including archaeological pieces, artworks, coins and musical instruments. www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...

Excited that today ENIGMA joins MONDIACULT 2025, part of the “Towards MONDIACULT” side events with @auroraeuproject & @AnchiseProject introducing tech-driven tools for heritage protection and provenance tracking. #MONDIACULT2025 #CulturalHeritage #Provenance

If you are working in a museum 🏦, you are a curator 🔎, or are simply interested in learning how the tools developed by ENIGMA can help museums combat the illicit trafficking 🚨 of cultural property, don't miss this session 🧐. 📜Registration link: forms.gle/nLiWBPyKbKBx...

Tomorrow we'll be participating in MONDIACULT25 @unesco.org together with Anchise Project and auroraeuproject. "Showcasing European Innovations projects to combat illicit trafficking of cultural goods". #HeritageCrime #CulturalHeritage #Innovation

📢 Join us on October the 1st at 12:00 CET in Brussels at KMKG museum and online for an interesting session: "ENIGMA and Museums: New Technologies to Prevent Heritage Crime". Registration link: forms.gle/dwByBEfM28uH... Don't miss this oportunity to know more about ENIGMA #TECH #Museums #Prevent

Save the date!!! ENIGMA final conference. Title: Unlocking ENIGMA: Technology and Data for Safeguarding Culture Date: 3rd of December. Hybrid: online and at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels Time: 09:30 to 17:00 Registration form: forms.gle/ScVwXLu2Gdhs...

Cutting-edge technologies reshape cultural heritage preservation, inheritance www.newsgd.com/node_1299786...

On the morning of September 16, the Cultural Heritage Digital Preservation Training Program successfully commenced during the Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum of the 2025 World Internet Conference. www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/17/...

On September 17, 2025, the World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum opened in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. Themed “Bridging History Through Digitalization, Building Civilization with Intelligence — Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace”

The deep integration of digital technology and cultural heritage will take center stage at the upcoming 2025 World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Forum. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/15/... #cultural #heritage #innovation #technology #protection #goods #artifacts

We are happy to invite you to participate in our upcoming online event organizing with our sister' projects in the framework of Mondiacult 2025 event which will take place on September 25 (4.00 – 5.30 PM CET) Registration is required docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cultural heritage in the digital age: how Asian creatives are using AI to preserve traditions. www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpos...

Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, innovation and opportunity. There is a rich and growing global ecosystem of cultural heritage practitioners using technology to reimagine what heritage is, who it belongs to and how we may preserve it for future. www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

ENIGMA has been presented at Digital Heritage 2025 conference, the world’s leading event on cultural heritage and emerging technologies, held this week in Siena, Italy. The coming months will be very intense in terms of disseminating the project results.

- 4th Pilot : Validation of the ENIGMA Decision-Support and Data-Communication Platform. The main objective of this pilot study is to provide an overall assessment of the developed system as well as a validation of the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed integrated workflow.

- 3rd Pilot: Monitoring of Endangered Heritage Sites The main objective of this pilot study is to validate the developed Earth observation toolkit and the innovative AI techniques as well as the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed workflow.

2nd Pilot: "Identification and Tracing of Unregistered CGs" A major barrier in identification of CGs is that the available technologies presuppose that the CG is known, documented and registered.

- 1st Pilot "Novel Documentation of Museum Items" The main objective of this pilot study is to investigate methods to enhance Authenticity and Traceability of museum items, by introducing and validating novel ways to documentation. ENIGMA creates the concept of Unique Authenticity Identifier (UAI)

If you are an expert in #culturalheritage or you are working in the fight against the illicit trafficking of #culturalgoods this training is for you. ENIGMA will present a new platform to assist in detecting the origin and provenance of objects suspected of having been looted.

The ENIGMA project takes a step forward!! We have already begun the implementation of our pilot cases, designed to strengthen the protection of cultural heritage and combat illicit trafficking in cultural property. #CulturalHeritage #Innovation #AI #HeritageProtection

ENIGMA will participe in the Training School on Digital Identity, Novel Chemical Markers, and Tracking Systems to Counteract Illicit Trafficking of Artworks, taking place from 21 to 24 October 2025 at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo. www.aurora-euproject.eu/aurora-train...

The European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025 will take place from 12 to 15 October in Brussels. The Summit will provide the platform for connecting high-level representatives from all EU institutions with heritage stakeholders from across Europe and beyond. www.europanostra.org/events/bruss...

Spain’s culture ministry has published a list of more than 5,000 items plundered by the Franco regime – including paintings, sculptures, jewellery, furniture and religious ornaments – to help people reclaim their family property. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

The International Council of Museums notes with concern the increase in the looting, illegal sale and illicit trafficking of cultural heritage objects from Syria. icom.museum/en/news/incr...

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ENIGMA entered an exciting new phase: testing its platform with real-life objects as part of ongoing developments. Plaster replicas of cultural assets are now used to evaluate and refine ENIGMA tools and technologies. Further information here: www.kmkg-mrah.be/fr/activity/...

Türkiye has officially returned a historic necklace from the Moche (Mochica) culture to Peru, a move made possible through the cooperation between the two countries and marking a significant milestone in its efforts to combat cultural heritage trafficking. www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-retu...

ICOM and UNESCO renew commitment to protect cultural heritage through strengthened partnership icom.museum/en/news/icom...

HeritageWatch.AI is a non-profit organisation dedicated to detecting & alerting on the destruction of Natural and Cultural Heritage using innovative technologies. heritagewatch.ai

Mexico and Italy Applaud Their Collaboration on Cultural Heritage and Against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods. Nearly 800 cultural artifacts have been repatriated from Italy to Mexico in recent years www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...

How crime is nurtured online. Online fraud is increasing in scale, diversity and sophistication, at a pace we have never seen before. Internet is the criminal theatre of today. This is the third episode in the third season of The Europol Podcast: europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Have you ever heard about EMPACT? EMPACT stands for the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats. The EU flagship instrument for multidisciplinary and multiagency operational cooperation to fight organised crime at an EU level. www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-...

80 arrests and more than 37 700 cultural goods seized in major art trafficking bust. Europol, INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization supported investigators from 23 countries in the fight against criminals who exploit humanity’s cultural heritage www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Professionals from all over the world are already using Art Recognition to authenticate their art. The Art Recognition award-winning AI system verifies the authenticity of an artwork based only on a photograph of it. art-recognition.com

On Friday May 23, ENIGMA had the opportunity to demonstrate the ENIGMA platform under realistic operational conditions in the Malta International Airport. The Demo was attended by the Airport Security and a Movable Cultural Heritage Team, which is composed of Art Historians and professionals .

Romania and Netherlands set up joint investigation team into theft of precious historic art from Dutch museum. Four pieces of major Romanian cultural heritage, were stolen from the museum in Assen in the early hours of Saturday 25 January. www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/romania...

ENIGMA participated in the second symposium of ANCHAISE with partners online and in situ. We recognize the value of listening and learning from the work and effort of each one of the EU funded projects addressing the important topic of the protection of cultural heritage from human threads.

We were present at the TMM CH 25 4th International conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, held at Athens, Greece between 7-9 April 2025. More info on our web and also here: tmm-ch.com

Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence one of our partners 😀 has presesented ENIGMA in an interview on Cyprus' National TV 📺 You can find the interview on our YouTube channel, here is the link: youtube.com/watch?v=b8D2... For those who don't speak Greek, it is subtitled.🤓

Very interesting article...have a look!! The looting of works of art and cultural assets has profound consequences that go far beyond the act of theft and sometimes we are not fully aware of them. itsartlaw.org/2024/05/06/f...

#TombTuesday Funerary urn from Iron Age Hama, Syria, plus some of the beads found within it, reconstructed into a necklace. Several beads were made from amber, sourced from the Baltic, over 3000km away. Their distant origin likely made them especially valuable. 🏺 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Check out our Historical Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess content such as: 🇵🇱 Forced labour camps of the 19th & 20th centuries 🇺🇸 A family scandal among the first English settlers in North America 🇸🇹 The origins of plantation slavery 🔗 buff.ly/2axSuyD 🏺

Our April issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology like: The earliest dated rune-stone in Iron Age Scandinavia Chaco Canyon's monumental roads and sacred geography Prehistoric cymbals indicate connections between Arabia and the Indus Valley & more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ENIGMA participated in the second symposium of ANCHISE with partners online and in situ. We recognize the value of listening and learning from the work and effort of each one of the EU funded projects addressing the important topic of the protection of cultural heritage from human threads.