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Looted Egyptian antiquities found in Spain’s antique shop
Eight fragments of limestone which were pillaged from from the Saqqara burial ground in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, south of Cairo, in 1999 have been discovered in an antiques shop in Spain. The pieces are inscribed with hieroglyphics dating from the 3rd Century BC. A statement said they were found by an expert... »
Egypt calls for unity at Cultural Heritage conference
Image via Wikipedia Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass addressed delegates from some 20 countries, including Libya, Greece, Italy, China and Peru at the opening session of the cultural heritage conference in Cairo. Dr. Hawass urged culture officials from around the world to unite and step up efforts to recover their stolen heritage. Greece has long demanded that... »
Stolen artifacts returned by Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia handed over three valuable artifacts that were intercepted at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh to their rightful owners in Egypt. The artifacts, which were being smuggled in a silver Qur’an cover, were given to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) delegation at the King Abdul Aziz Historical Center, the Saudi Commission... »
Will the Beautiful One Come home?
“The director of the Egyptian antiquities department at the Berlin museum will come (to Egypt) on December 8 to discuss the right of Egyptians to the return of the statue of Nefertiti,” Zahi Hawass told journalists on a visit to Luxor. Hawass said the Berlin museum official “will bring evidence that the statue left Egypt... »
Ten reasons or ten excuses?
Image via Wikipedia An article in Heritage Key by Bija Knowles lists the “10 Reasons Why the Bust of Nefertiti Should Stay in the Neues Museum“. The title is not only enraging, but actually doesn’t do justice to its content, which presents favorable counter arguments on this polemic issue. Egypt is now an independent nation with... »
France will return stolen Luxor tomb paintings to Egypt
France decided Friday to return to Egypt five relics stolen from Luxor’s Valley of the Kings and sold to the Louvre, two days after Cairo severed ties with the Paris museum in protest. A special commission of the French museums agency decided unanimously to restitute the five painted wall fragments after ruling that they were... »
Former museum director charged with stealing Egyptian antiquities
The ousted head of Long Island University’s Hillwood Museum has been charged with stealing ancient Egyptian artifacts from the museum and trying to auction them at Christie’s. Barry Stern, 61, admitted he took the nine pieces – each more than 2,000 years old. A preliminary search of the museum’s collection found other pieces missing. The stolen... »
Stolen Egyptian artifacts recovered
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it has recovered seven of the eight ancient Egyptian artifacts that were stolen from the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam in the middle of the afternoon on July 29, 2007. The Art Loss Register found them at a Manhattan auction house (one of the big two —... »
Egypt recovers ancient artifacts from Myers Museum
Image via Wikipedia Egyptian authorities have recovered 454 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including pharaonic pottery and bronze coins, from the U.K.’s Myers Museum which had been removed from the country more than 30 years ago. The recovered artifacts were taken out of the country between 1972 and 1988 after Unesco banned antiquities trafficking in 1970. The items... »
Egypt asks Sweden to return artifacts
Egypt has formally asked Sweden for the return of 212 artifacts taken out of the country by a Swedish collector in mid 1920s. Zahi Hawass, the head of the Council of Antiquities, said in a statement that the council’s lawyer has been in touch with Ostergotlands County Museum in Sweden. The artifacts, Hawass said, were taken... »
