Cultural Property and Other Criminal Networks
Related Encyclopedia Entries
Cancuén Ballcourt Marker
Classic Maya stone sculpture from the site of Cancuén, Guatemala; looted in 2001 and recovered in 2003. Note: the piece was sometimes referred to as an ‘altar’ in the press.
Media Investigations
Some of the most informative studies of the traffic in cultural objects have been conducted by investigative media.
Piedras Negras
During the 1960s a number of archaeologically recorded monuments were looted from the Classic Maya site in Guatemala’s Peten region and trafficked into the United States.