Tom Mashberg

Oct 10, 2024 | clarin.com | Tom Mashberg

Entre las esculturas de piedra de demonios hindúes, guardianes de templos mitológicos y divinidades budistas, las autoridades camboyanas reconocieron este mes el éxito de largos años de esfuerzos de repatriación con una ceremonia en la oficina del primer ministro en Phnom Penh. En una sala repleta de piezas antiguas, los funcionarios dieron la bienvenida formal a la devolución de estatuas y otros objetos robados de lugares donde el pueblo jemer, siglos atrás, había honrado a sus reyes y deidades.

Sep 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley |Tom Mashberg

A California collector has gone to court to block efforts by New York investigators to seize an ancient Roman bronze statue that they assert was looted from Turkey in the 1960s. In a federal court filing last week in California, lawyers for the collector, Aaron Mendelsohn, 74, disputed the evidence they said investigators had presented indicating that the ancient statue of a man was stolen from an archaeological site in Turkey.

Aug 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Mashberg

Image After years of research and diplomacy, Cambodian officials, aided at times by U.S. investigators, convinced museums and wealthy collectors in 15 countries that the artifacts in their galleries and homes had been taken illegally, often from remote jungle sites. All told, since 2012, more than 200 relics have been repatriated. Credit Credit...

Jul 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Mashberg

"Seated Nude Woman," a drawing by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, was returned on Friday to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish art collector and Viennese cabaret performer who was killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

May 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tom Mashberg

While excavating an ancient Greek palace in eastern Libya in the 1930s, an archaeologist dug up a large earthen storage jar, looked inside and spotted something unexpected - a 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, a dark volcanic stone. The two-foot-tall antiquity, most likely chiseled during ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, was a rare find. Known as a striding male figure, it is one of only 33 statues like it known to exist, Egyptologists say.