International Approaches
to Archaeological Heritage
Management II: Plunder and Preservation
The international community has endeavored to prevent looting since
the 1960s and has developed several international instruments to do
so. Yet the looting continues. Can an effective solution be found before
everything is gone? And how do we preserve cultural sites of global
importance?
Text of the UNESCO Convention of 1970, Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 14 November 1970.
Text of the UNIDROIT Convention of 1995, UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects.
Text of the World Heritage Convention of 1972, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 16 November 1972.
Text of the ICOMOS Charter of 1990, Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage.