Cultural Property and Other Criminal Networks
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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.
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Media Investigations
Some of the most informative studies of the traffic in cultural objects have been conducted by investigative media.
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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.