1. U.S.-Canadian Bilateral Cooperation Project, Toronto, Canada

   A two-day workshop promoting U.S.-Canadian Cooperation in Preventing Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property was held in June 2014 in Toronto, Canada, in support of an initiative of the U.S. Consulate General and the ICE Attaché’s Office and their Canadian counterparts in response to concerns about cultural objects originating from or passing through Canada and illicitly entering the United States.

2. Heritage in Peril: Iraq and Syria

   U.S. Department of State and The Metropolitan Museum of Art held an event titled “Heritage in Peril: Iraq and Syria” amid the United Nations General Assembly week.

3. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Galt’s Remarks for the Yemen Red List Launch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

   Remarks for the Yemen Red List Launch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY on Wednesday, January 31, 2018

4. U.S. Returns Stolen Artifacts to China

   After making its largest discovery of cultural property ever — 42,000 artifacts from around the world — at one U.S. home, the FBI has begun packing up and sending many of the items to the People’s Republic of China, where they belong.

5. Future of Babylon Project

   The U.S. Department of State is assisting with management planning, preservation, and educational development at the ancient site of Babylon, home to the “Tower of Babel” and Nebuchadnezzar’s wondrous “Hanging Gardens.”

6. The Healing Power of Art

   Art Therapist Ashley Door traveled to the centers of Zarqa, Ammon, and Aqaba to introduce the healing power of art to Palestinian and Pakistani refuges living with the trauma they’ve endured during their journeys.

7. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Galt’s Remarks at the U.S.-Colombia repatriation event

   Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Galt’s Remarks at the U.S.-Colombia repatriation event

8. Networking Opens Opportunities for Barbara Rwodzi of Zimbabwe

   "Home visits were special. It is an opportunity to know other people and exchange cultures. There is lots of laughing."

9. Protect What’s Yours. Stop Daesh

   Daesh is looting and destroying your cultural heritage.

10. Conflict Antiquities: Panel 2 Video

    

    Conflict Antiquities: Forging a Public/Private Response to Save the Endangered Patrimony of Iraq and Syria (Panel 2 Video)

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