The 2024–2025 Transnational Organise Crime programme broadly explores the trafficking in cultural artefacts and antiquities and the involvement of criminal organisations in this crime type.  This includes the origins, transit, points of trafficked artefacts and antiquities, the patterns and people involved in this crime type, the laundering and confiscation of proceeds, international and national legal frameworks, and other measure to prevent and suppress such trafficking, as well as questions about restitution.  Research undertaken in the 2024-2025 cover seven different perspectives. The first set of topics serves to explore and explain basic terms and concepts relating to trafficking in cultural artefacts and antiquities, variations in definitions and international and national laws, and the evolution of these concepts, of countermeasures, and the literature. The second set looks at sources of trafficked cultural artefacts and antiquities, the historical and political settings, the types of objects that are commonly taken (looted), the (criminal) elements involved, the patterns of offending and trafficking, the profits made. Topics in the third category look at one of the main markets (destinations) for trafficked cultural artefacts and antiquities. The following set looks at various (criminal) elements, groups, individuals, and institutions who, wittingly or unwittingly, play a part in (facilitating) trafficking in cultural artefacts and antiquities. These projects serve to profile the type of perpetrators, their role and modi operandi, as well as legal and practical measures to stop and deter them. The next set of topics explores individual international treaties and other frameworks that, directly or indirectly, seek to prevent and suppress trafficking in cultural artefacts and antiquities. Another category critically canvasses domestic laws relating to the protection of, import, export, and trade in cultural artefacts and antiquities, with a particular focus on relevant criminal offences.  Further topics explore confiscation, restitution, and prevention.