Egypt
- Police Arrest Illegal Excavators In Luxor, Aswan
Egypt Independent Tourism and antiquities police in Upper Egypt have seized 17 artifacts while on a mission targeting illegal excavators in Luxor and Aswan. A security source said police had received a tip that illegal excavators were searching...
- Egypt To Receive Four Stolen Artifacts From The Uk
Al Masry Al Youm (Mohamed Azouz) Four antiques from the time of King Amnehotep III will be returned to Egypt by the UK within days, said Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Abdel Maksoud in a statement on Saturday. They...
- 55 Objects Seized In El Wadi El Gedid, But Are They Genuine?
Luxor Times With photo. A committee is being sent to inspect the seized items and ensure that they are genuine. 55 antiquity objects of various sizes including 2 sarcophagi dated back to different eras were seized by a police force on a raid on a known...
- Alleged Artifact Thieves Referred For Military Trial
Al Masry Al Youm The Tourism and Antiquities Police referred two suspects accused of stealing artifacts from the Egyptian Museum for military trial, according to an Interior Ministry statement released Monday. The statement said the antiquities police,...
- Mummy For Sale For $10m
http://tinyurl.com/duxox (News24.com) "Egyptian authorities arrested the owner of a souvenir shop near the pyramids plateau after receiving a tip that he had tried to sell a mummy for $10m, said a source from the Tourism and Antiquities police on Tuesday....
Egypt
68 artefacts seized in Minya
Egypt Independent (Saeed Nafea)
The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner’s house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred to the prosecution for investigation.
Security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that a committee from the Antiquities Ministry confirmed that the seized pieces are artifacts and that sale or ownership of them is against the law.
Last month, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali said that two percent of historical artifacts held in government storehouses were stolen during the period of lax security that followed the 25 January revolution.
- Police Arrest Illegal Excavators In Luxor, Aswan
Egypt Independent Tourism and antiquities police in Upper Egypt have seized 17 artifacts while on a mission targeting illegal excavators in Luxor and Aswan. A security source said police had received a tip that illegal excavators were searching...
- Egypt To Receive Four Stolen Artifacts From The Uk
Al Masry Al Youm (Mohamed Azouz) Four antiques from the time of King Amnehotep III will be returned to Egypt by the UK within days, said Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Abdel Maksoud in a statement on Saturday. They...
- 55 Objects Seized In El Wadi El Gedid, But Are They Genuine?
Luxor Times With photo. A committee is being sent to inspect the seized items and ensure that they are genuine. 55 antiquity objects of various sizes including 2 sarcophagi dated back to different eras were seized by a police force on a raid on a known...
- Alleged Artifact Thieves Referred For Military Trial
Al Masry Al Youm The Tourism and Antiquities Police referred two suspects accused of stealing artifacts from the Egyptian Museum for military trial, according to an Interior Ministry statement released Monday. The statement said the antiquities police,...
- Mummy For Sale For $10m
http://tinyurl.com/duxox (News24.com) "Egyptian authorities arrested the owner of a souvenir shop near the pyramids plateau after receiving a tip that he had tried to sell a mummy for $10m, said a source from the Tourism and Antiquities police on Tuesday....