EditorialShop owners secure the door to their business to discourage looting in Antakya, the capital of Hatay Province, Turkey on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Emily Garthwaite/The New York Times)
EditorialOne of the few remaining sculptures at the Kherson Regional Art Museum, that curators said Russian forces spent several days looting in 2021, in Kherson, Ukraine, November, 22, 2022. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople wait in line to shop at a local convenience store that is only allowing customers two at a time after recent looting events, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 26, 2022. (Brendan Bannon/The New York Times)
EditorialSiege and looting of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple (587 B.C.) by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (634-562 B.C) who reigned between 605-562 B.C. Book of Jeremiah. Drawing by Gustave Dore. Engraving by A. Beltrame.
EditorialRoger Ng, a former Goldman Sachs banker, leaves federal district court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 6, 2019. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
EditorialEight objects seized by the Manhattan district attorney’s office as part of its investigations into the looting of artifacts, in New York, Oct. 7, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialGreat Britain. London. Socialist agitation. Protesters encouraged to theft and looting in shops Picadilly during the meeting of the Socialist leader Burns in Trafalgar Square. February 8, 1886. Engraving. Colored.
EditorialBritain. London. Socialist agitation. Protesters encouraged to theft and looting in shops Picadilly during the meeting of the Socialist leader Burns in Trafalgar Square. February 8, 1886. Engraving.
EditorialFrance. The Dreyfus affair. Political scandal that divided France from 1894-1906 and in which the artillery Officer Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was involved. Anarchists looting the St. Joseph's church in Paris. Engraving.
EditorialGerman Peasants' War (1524-1525). Fires and looting by the German reformer, Thomas Muntzer (1491-1525) and his people during the rebellion. Colored engraving. 19th century.
EditorialCount Borrell II of Barcelona, Girona, Ausona and Urgell (c. 915-992) escapes from Barcelona after the looting and burning of the city by Almanzor (985). Engraving, 19th century.
EditorialResidents of Phoenix, South Africa hold candles during a procession past the location where at least 20 people were allegedly killed by residents as they barricaded their neighborhood to protect from looting, July 18, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)