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Save the Obelisk in Central Park
Image via Wikipedia In a letter addressed to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the Mayor of New York City, Dr. Zahi Hawass, director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, calls attention to the severe deterioration of the obelisk located in Central Park, commonly known as ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’. That title per se shows... »
Metropolitan Museum returns artifact to Egypt
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return to Egypt a fragment of an ancient pharaonic shrine it purchased from a collector. The Supreme Council of Antiquities said that a piece of a red granite shrine, known as a “naos,” was purchased from an antiquities collector in New York last October so that it could... »
Recession hits the Met
Image by wallyg via Flickr Ninety-six staff members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY accepted an offer of voluntary retirement, part of a wider staff reduction that also will cut employees by layoff and attrition and bring the payroll down by 357 positions, to 2,200. Many had served the museum for decades, and all... »
