Cultural heritage
A capability inside Nexus Prism, not a separate product. Available on a seat, or as a data feed.
The smallest of the six pillars by volume, and deliberately so — the population of stolen and disputed objects is finite, and a register that grows fast is a register that is wrong.
What it tracks
Stolen and looted objects, from published theft registers and law enforcement notices.
Provenance chains — the ownership history of an object, and the gaps in it. The gap is usually the finding. An object with clean paperwork from 1975 onward and nothing before it is telling you when it surfaced, not that it is clean.
Market transactions, matched against those registers, so an object appearing at auction or in a private sale can be checked against what is known about where it has been.
The structures behind the buyer, which is the part most art-market tooling stops short of. A sale is a transaction between entities, and those entities sit in the same corporate, sanctions and on-chain graph as everything else in the platform.
Why this is in an intelligence platform at all
Antiquities are a value-transfer instrument. They are portable, they are hard to price, provenance is routinely thin, and the market has historically treated discretion as a service. That combination is why the same structures that move money through shells and off-ramps also move objects.
The pillar exists because the correlation is the point: an object, a buyer, a shell company, a jurisdiction and a payment are one question, and answering it in four tools is how it goes unanswered.
Conflict-zone looting is the other half. Objects that surface after a conflict, and the routes they take to a legitimate market, are traceable when theft registers, sanctions data and corporate records sit in one graph.
What this is not
Not authentication. We do not assess whether an object is genuine. That is a conservator's job and a different profession.
Not valuation. We do not price objects.
Not a claim that a holder knew. A provenance gap is a gap. It is a question for the holder to answer, not a finding against them, and a report that confuses the two is worse than useless to a claimant — it hands the other side its defence.
Not investigation for hire. Research and analysis. Texas Occupations Code §1702.101.