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ENIGMA is an Horizon Europe project addressed to achieve excellence in the protection of Cultural Goods and artefacts from man-made threats
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
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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.
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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...
Left: a smooth, slightly polished reddish-orange jar with a short cylindrical neck and semi-globular body, decorated with a monochrome red pattern composed of horizontal and wavy stripes (the funerary urn). Right: several beads of different colours and shapes, strung together to make a necklace.
#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...
View of Dunyvaig castle and the Lagavulin distillery in Lagavulin Bay on the Scottish island of Islay, with the text 'Historical Archaeology, Antiquity'.
Check out our Historical Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess content such as:
🇵🇱 Forced labour camps of the 19th & 20th centuries
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Cover of the April 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring two plaques (57 × 53mm & 47 × 43mm) with linear motifs found with more than 600 whole and fragmentary engraved stones at Vasagård, on the Danish island of Bornholm. Th e fi nds are regarded as Neolithic miniature artworks and termed ‘sun stones’ in reference to the rayed images. It is also suggested that the engraved stones were ritually deposited at Vasagård to secure the fertility and growth of crops. For more information, see ‘Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark’ by Rune Iversen et al. in this issue. Photographs by John Lee, The National Museum of Denmark.
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.
08.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are thrilled to announce our participation in the #TMMCH2025 4th #International #Conference in #EugenidesFoundation, sharing our work on fighting against illicit trafficking.
Find out more here: www.tmm-ch.com
Do you know what #NAGPRA is?
It stands for "Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act" and requires museums to return designated Native American cultural objects to their communities—even if they were obtained before the law went into effect.
columbialawreview.org/content/loot...
ICOM, in partnership with ICOM Greece and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, is pleased to introduce the ICOM Red List of Greek Cultural Objects at Risk.
The Red List is a crucial tool for law enforcement, museums, cultural institutions, and the art market.
greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/12/i...
Unleashing the power of culture to achieve sustainable development #MONDIACULT2025 will take place this year in Spain.
It is the world’s biggest cultural policy conference where 194 Member States of UNESCO will define the global agenda for culture.
www.unesco.org/es/mondiacult
It is worth taking a few minutes to read this publication, a new concept "archeo-mafia". Although it is a case study from Italy it can be extrapolated easily: www.academia.edu/27829280/Her...
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Did you know that the illicit trafficking of cultural goods is treated as a matter of global security due to the fact it is closely related to other types of crime, especially organised crime and terrorism...
What is hidden behind it?
#culturalheritage #protection
www.unesco.org/en/days/agai...
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