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Africa

• Steiner, Christopher, 1994. African Art in Transit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Schmidt, R. and R. McIntosh (eds), 1996. Plundering Africa’s Past, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
• ICOM's Red List of African Cultural Objects at Risk
  

Australasia

Central Asia

East Asia

• Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center
• China and Cultural Property: Who Owns the Past?
• Cultural Heritage Preservation in Asia
• The Illicit Traffic in Asian Antiquities

South East Asia

• Illicit Antiquities: The Situation in South-Aast Asia
• Saving Cambodia's Treasures
• Southeast Asian Archaeology International Newsletter
  

South Asia

European Union

• The Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation

Central & South America

• Reents-Budet, Dorie, 1994. "Collecting Pre-Columbian Art and Preserving the Archaeological Past," Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classical Period., Durham, NC: Duke University Press
• Kirkpatrick, Sidney D., 1992. Lords of Sipan: A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime, New York: William Morrow
• ICOM's Red List of Latin American Cultural Objects at Risk
  
• Stealing History
• Tomb Raiders Threaten Mayan City's History

North America

• American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
  
• Center for Desert Archaeology
• Coping with Site Looting: Southeastern Perspectives
• The Trade and Environment Database: Native American Artifact Case Study
• When the Bush Energy Policy Confronts Ancient Art
  

Iraq

• 'Pit Bull' Dogs Iraq Museum Looters
• John Malcolm Russell, 1998. The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennecherib's Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq, New Haven: Yale University Press
• Polk, Milbry and Angela M.H. Schuslter (eds), 2005. The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Treasures of Ancient Mesopotamia
  , New York: Abrams
• Ken Matsumoto, 2004. The State of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage After the Iraq War and the Measures Which Should Be Taken Now: A View from the UNESCO Mission's Investigations in Iraq (In Japanese), Al-Rafidan: Journal of Western Asiatic Studies. Vol 25, P 43-56
• Ancient Iraqi Sites Show Theft, Destruction
• Archaeologists Fight to Save Iraqi Sites
• Archaeologists Review Loss of Valuable Artifacts One Year After Looting
• Cops and Markets Use Incentives, Not Tighter Bans, To Preserve Iraq's Heritage
• Cultural Leaders say Looting of Iraq's Antiquities Continues
• Days of Plunder
• Donny George’s convocation address on “The Looting of the Iraq National Museum” at the College Art Association's Dallas-Fort Worth conference
• ICOM's Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk
  
• Iraq Journal: Grave Robbers' Looting Spree
• Iraq's Legacy of Looted Treasures is Revealed
  
• Iraq's Treasures Still Being Looted
• Looted Iraqi Art Displayed Online
• Looting Iraq: A Conversation With Museum Director Donny George
• Looting of Iraqi Cultural Heritage Sites Worsens After Major Combat Says CU's Bahrani (Video).
  
• Opening the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War Baghdad.
• Pillaging the Gardens of Babylon
• Spoils of War: The Antiquities Trade and the Looting of Iraq
• Stop, Thieves! Recovering Iraq's Looted Treasures
• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
• The Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum
• The Massacre of Mesopotamian Archaeology: Looting in Iraq Is Out of Control
• The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq
  
• The Treasure Hunter: John Russell is a Real-Life Indiana Jones, Out to Protect Iraq's Ancient Artifacts from Looters.

The Middle East

• A Swiss–British Conference on the Traffic in Artifacts from Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond
• Association for the Protection of Afghan Archaeology
• ICOM's Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk
  
• Terrorists Raise Cash by Selling Antiquities

Turkey

• The TAY Project

Russia, the Baltic States

• Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1996.