الرمز الدولي للمواقع المشمولة بالحماية تحت بند معاهدة لاهاي 1954 المختصة بالارث الثقافي في اوقات الحرب

 

 

 

 

 

GHF Iraq Heritage

UR Report

scientific and cultural organization	global heritage fund
منظمة جسر الى (  Un Ponte Per ) -  روما	منظمة بلادي - للتراث و للحوار  ( بيروت )

Lost Treasures from Iraq\ Oriental Inst.

The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage

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Law _ قانون

ArThemis (art law) with case database

Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation

Arts Law Centre of Australia

Center for Art Law (New York)

Art-Law Centre (Geneva)

Institute of Art & Law (UK)

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Intergovernmentals and Internationals

مواقع مختصة بحماية التراث حكومية ودولية

International Council of Museums Observatory on Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods

The Blue Shield: US; UK

INTERPOL Works of Art (international) with database

UNESCO Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

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منظمات مجتمع مدني ومجموعات ناشطة مختصة بحماية التراث

NGOs, Not-For Profits, Others

Antiquities Coalition

Saving Antiquities for Everyone

Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)

International Foundation for Art Research

Museum Security Network

Global Heritage Fund

Cultural Heritage Without Borders

World Monuments Fund

Walk of Truth

 

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شرطة دولية- شرطة مختصة بالاثار- حماية و فرض قانون

Policing Agencies

Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, Italy, with database

Tamil Nadu Police Department Idol Wing, India

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USA

FBI Art Crime Team (USA) with database

Department of State Cultural Property Protection, USA

Metropolitan Police Art & Antiquities, UK

 

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الاسترداد

Repatriation, Recovery, Return

Looted Art From the Nazi Period, official swiss Online portal

Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg

Commission for Art Recovery

Commission for Looted Art in Europe

Lost Art Internet Database

Provenance Research Initiative

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كروب نشر المخاطر التي تتهدد مواقع العراق الاثارية بسبب الارهاب - فيس بوك - انقر ادناه

Endangered Heritage Sites in Iraq

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مدونة البروفسر مورغ كريسل المختصة بحقوق الارث الثقافي وعائدية الاثار

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النشرة الدولية لجامعة كيمبردج لحماية الارث الثقافي

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تدمير الارث الحضاري والثقافي العراقي...بيتر ستون وجوهانا باجللي , تقديم روبرت فسك

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اسرار جديدة تكشفها اثارية عراقية عن سرقة المتحف العراقي في بغداد 2003
انقر هنا

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بروفسر ماكواير جبسن من المتحف الشرقي في شيكاغو و المعهد الامريكي لدراسات العراق وحديث عن التحذيرات التي تم اعطائها للسلطات السياسية والعسكرية الاميركية قبيل الاحتلال في 2003 والتي تم تجاهلها كلية

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كارثة المتحف العراقي 2003 وكنوز النمرود

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اوعية التعاويذ الارامية العراقية ومافيات الاثار العالمية

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Useful web sites

• AAM News & Notes. Iraqi Cultural Heritage Crisis: links page, by American Association of Museums

• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq: a.k.a. TAARII (formerly American Association for Research in Baghdad or AARB), established to promote scholarly research on and in Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia

•   Archaeologists for Human Rights: group of Near Eastern archaeologists who are helping to examine Iraqi mass graves in co-operation with physical anthropologists/forensic experts

• Archaeology Watch. Recovering and Protecting Iraq's Cultural Heritage: page on the web site of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) with links to AIA and other related information

• The British Museum: Iraq Crisis: chronicles the role of the British Museum in the co-ordinaton of the international effort under the auspices of UNESCO to alleviate the damage suffered by the National Museum and archaeological sites

• Coalition Provisional Authority Iraq: official site of the occupation governing entity in Iraq; no longer updated

• The Cradle of Civilization at Risk. Cultural Heritage and Historical Monuments: nice collection of links, by H-Museum

• Crisis in Iraq: official UNESCO site on the Iraq War and the consequences on its cultural heritage

• Cultural Crisis in Iraq: good page of web links, by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

• The Cultural Heritage of Iraq: with news stories, official responses to the situation and an online exhibition of color photographs, by the University of Pennsylvania Museum

• Cultural Property Stolen Iraqi Art: pictures of some stolen artifacts from the National Museum in Baghdad, on Interpol site

• Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk: describes the general types of artefacts most favored by the illegal antiquities market, so that these may be identified and detained wherever they surface, by the International Council of Museums (ICOM)

• Endangered Iraqi Objects: main categories of objects which may be stolen from the various Iraqi museums and which could be subject to illicit trafficking, by Interpol

• Ezida: le site dédié à la Mésopotamie: nice informative site, with a good section on the National Museum in Baghdad, by a Swiss scholar

• Focus on Iraq: specifics and pictures of 303 artifacts from the National Museum in Baghdad, by Minerva

• Hot Spot: Iraq: portal for all coverage of its people, history, cultural heritage, the War, etc. by National Geographic

• Information on Iraq: overview of ASOR's efforts on behalf of archaeological heritage in Iraq, by the American Schools of Oriental Research

• Iraq - All files: visual database of some of the artifacts stolen in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. ImageServer (Italy), [2000?]

• Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative: collaborative project to mitigate threats to and repair damage sustained by Iraq's cultural heritage and to rebuild the country's professional conservation and heritage-management capacity, by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF)

• Iraq Cultural Property Image Collection: a preliminary listing of some of the types of items from the Iraq National Museum and other museums, archaeological sites or locations in Iraq with respect to which there is a high probability that they have been illegally removed from Iraqi locations, by the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

• The Iraq Museum: official site of the National Museum in Baghdad [under construction]

• Iraq Museum International: originally a private US project to establish a virtual National Museum online using the latest information technology (formerly the "Baghdad Museum Project"); among other things, now monitors eBay sales of Mesopotamian artifacts with dubious provenance

• Iraq Museum Restoration: numismatic publications are being collected to donate to the National Museum in Baghdad, by the American Numismatic Society (ANS)

• Iraq. Recent Developments: news and developments regarding the libraries and archives, by the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS)

• Iraq: The Cultural Aftermath: web site by Historians of Islamic Art (HIA)

• Iraqcrisis: moderated list on cultural property damaged, destroyed or lost from Libraries and Museums in Iraq during and after the Iraq War, by the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

• Iraqi Cultural Heritage: statements, links, by the US State Department

• Kulturhilfe für Irak: overview of the initiatives taken by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

• The Looting Continues: A Forum on the Archaeology and History of Iraq: with online audio of lectures, organized by the [Australian] Cultural Reference Group on Iraq and hosted by the Melbourne Museum on September 14, 2003

• Looting Matters! The material and intellectual consequences of collecting antiquities: excellent site by Dr. Ch. Chippindale and Dr. D. Gill (University of Wales Swansea, UK) which among other things has research that tries to quantify the amount of looted artifacts in collections
  The Looting of the Iraq Museum: picture database of 300 objects in the National Museum in Baghdad, taken from the last published catalogue (Basmachi, 1975-76), by The Art Newspaper

• Lost Treasures from Iraq: picture database of antiquities from the National Museum in Baghdad, by the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), to be added to on a continuing basis

• Lyre of Ur: project to build working, detailed replica of the famous harp—actually a lyre—from the National Museum in Baghdad, by Andy Lowings

• MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries: reports, pictures, etc. by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

• Mesopotamia Oggi: great collection of information about archaeology in Iraq today (also photos of sites), in Italian, by the Università degli Studi di Pavia

• Not For Sale: A Swiss-British Conference on the Traffic in Artefacts from Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond: organized by the British Embassy Switzerland, the British Council Switzerland and the Centre du droit de l'art/Art-Law Centre (Geneva) on February 5-6, 2004

• Protecting Cultural Heritage: International Law after the War in Iraq: conference organized in February 2006 by the Cultural Policy Center of the University of Chicago, some papers available online

• Protecting Iraq's Ancient Heritage: page on the web site of AIA's Archaeology magazine with links to all their relevant online materials

• Republic of Iraq. Ministry of Culture: official web site; only in Arabic so far but English and French sections in preparation

• Resources on Iraqi Museum Collections: books and web sites, by the International Council of Museums (ICOM)

• SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone): coalition of professionals from the communications, media and advertising industries trying to bring worldwide attention to the illicit trade in plundered antiquities

• The Situation in Iraq: recommendations, by the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) at the University of Cambridge

• Stolen Works of Art: Interpol site with int al. info about the Working Group Meeting on Cultural Property Looted in Iraq, Lyon, May 5-6, 2003 (list of participants, minutes, final recommendations)

• Symposium: Plündern, Vernichten, Vergessen: Kulturgüterschutz im Kriege und das kulturelle Welterbe im Irak (11.-13. Juni 2003 in Graz und Wien): conference about the cultural heritage crisis in Iraq, by the Österreichischen Initiativgruppe: Weltkulturerbe Irak (OIWI), a consortium of many Austrian institutions and organizations related to cultural heritage issues, Iraq or the Middle East

• The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq: list of principal buildings, monuments and sites at risk as well as maps and links, by Ancient Near Eastern scholars at Oxford University

• UN Iraq: web portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq, by UNAMI

• UNESCO and Iraq: official UNESCO site on the country of Iraq

• USAID-Iraq HEAD: program to provide tools for Iraqi universities to develop modern academic programs and curricula in archaeology and environmental health research, by SUNY at Stony Brook

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Dr. John M. Russell Blog

- D. Zuñiga, "'Tesoros arqueológicos de Irak se venden por internet.' El especialista belga Francis Deblauwe ..." in Las Últimas Noticias (Chile), April 9, 2006

- "Online-Dokumentations-Projekt zur Kulturgüter-Situation im Irak nun am Server der Universität Wien," in DieUniversitaet-online.at. ... (Austria), online, September 12, 2005

- "Der Golfkrieg, das Kulturerbe des Irak und der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die Antike-Kunsthandel-Lobby in den USA," in DieUniversitaet-online.at. ... (Austria), online, [September 12, 2005]

- "Operation Iraqi Freedom und Danach: Das archäologische Erbe des Irak und der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die internationale Kunsthandel-Lobby," in Forum Archaeologiae. ... (Austria), online, 36 (September 2005)

- "Mesopotamian Ruins and American Scholars. Two Years Later: Some Lobbying Successes But the Devastation of Iraq's Cultural Heritage Continues," in The Bible and Interpretation, online, August [15], 2005

- "Der Golfkrieg und das kulturelle Erbe des Irak. Der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die Antike-Kunsthandel-Lobby und wie das IWA-Projekt nach Wien kam. ...," in GÖAB-Bulletin, 3, 2005 [July]

- R. Strobel, "[Interview with Dr. Francis Deblauwe]", in Morning Magazine (KGNU radio; Colorado), with online audio, May 25, 2005

- "Preserving the Past From the Vandals of History. [Book review of] Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World By Roger Atwood. ...," in National Catholic Reporter, May 20, 2005

- S. Walsh, "War exposes history," in [Gary] Post-Tribune (Indiana), February 6, 2005, with a sidebar by F. Deblauwe

- "American graffiti. We cannot avoid responsibility for this destructive legacy of the war, writes Francis Deblauwe," in The Guardian (UK), January 15, 2005

- "Melee at the Museum. International Whodunit Lingers over Looting of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad," in National Catholic Reporter, October 17, 2003

- "Iraq Update," in Archaeology Odyssey, September-October 2003

- "Plundering the Past: The Rape of Iraq’s National Museum," in Archaeology Odyssey, July-August 2003

- with B. Wetherill, "Prohibit Imports of Looted Treasures," in The Kansas City Star, June 6, 2003

- "Iraq: Looting of Cultural Treasures," in WashingtonPost.com. Live Discussion, online moderated chat, April 21, 2003