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Quite the exchange from the Brooklyn Museum archives - Robin Symes asking "hey, want to buy this freshly looted torso?" and the curator replying "lemme see if it matches any of the looted heads I know!"

You can now read (and cite!) my PhD thesis “Contemporary Indigenous iconoclasm in global perspective: Contested monuments in three settler colonies, c. 1968–2000”. Download available through Uni_Newcastle_NOVA hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1511255 Its three key arguments are… 1/

I regret to inform you that my kids refer to talking to each other in their walkie-talkies as “making a podcast.”

Mati Diop is back with “Dahomey,” an extraordinary documentary on art restitution narrated by a statue. In my profile The New Yorker, we discuss homecomings, the misrepresentation of migrants, and why she didn’t end up directing “The Woman King” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

The museums that hold Nepal's gods and goddesses as 'art' use 'tactics of delay' to try and wear down restitution activists. The latest in a BBC series on loot of our heritage by Sanjaya Dhakal Sanjaya Dhakal. bbc.com/news/articles/…

In the year of our lord 2013, a New York "antiquities" gallery was offering a "mummified bust" for sale as a genuine piece from ancient Egypt. 1) that's clearly a tourist copy of the famous bust of Nefertiti; 2) why would you... mummify a sculpture?

I'm out. Find me at Erin L. Thompson.bsky.social

I'm prepping to delete my account - find me on BS or my email's on my website. It's been real!

Nepali students were prepping for the international round of a law school competition when the American Embassy broke their promise to fund their trip. Please donate or repost to make up for our nation's new policy of being senseless jerks! #Jessup gofundme.com/f/fund-nepal-l…

Reposting for the morning crowd - please share!

It is a humble appeal from enthusiastic law students from Nepal who have qualified for the Philip C. Jessup 2025 Int. Rounds. We request everyone to support us in this journey by contributing any amount you can. gofundme.com/f/fund-nepal-l…

Who Forged the Dead Sea Scrolls? A conversation with Prof. Erin Thompson youtube.com/live/aq2lWfMOf… via YouTube I will be chatting LIVE with Erin L. Thompson all about antiquity fraud, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the elusive forgers ... tomorrow, Weds 9 April @ 1600 ET = 1300 PT