Illicit trade

Unesco launches virtual museum of stolen cultural objects

Online platform will recreate stolen artefacts to raise awareness about looting

Unesco unveils plans for virtual museum of stolen objects

Site aims to help strengthen advocacy for the return of looted cultural property

Museums exempt as ivory trade ban comes into force

Exemption applies to selling or hiring ivory items to qualifying museums

Illegally excavated statue returned to Libya

Museums help identify and return rare funerary statue in long-running repatriation case

Seized fakes reveal ‘emerging market’ in counterfeit antiquities

Organised crime gangs are thought to be behind the trade in artefacts aimed at a “fresh gullible market”