Egypt
The Daily Mail, Islamabad
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- Holes In Egypt's National Collection
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Egypt
Addressing the call for objects to be repatriated
The Daily Mail, Islamabad
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HEADS are in the news this week. China has demanded the return of two 18th century bronze animal heads that belonged to the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and auctioned in Paris on Wednesday. Egypt wants the famous head of Nefertiti back from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. There will be many who are sympathetic to the view that all historic and cultural artefacts seized decades or even centuries ago in war, by colonial regimes or in similar questionable circumstances should be returned to their countries of origin, if so desired. There are many such demands. . . .
A line has to be drawn somewhere. A hundred years seem a good cut-off point. That would cover anything stolen within the lifetime of an individual or owned by his or her immediate family. A statute of limitations is standard procedure in many countries. An item stolen 200 years ago would have been bought in good faith many times over since (the case with the Chinese bronze heads and why a French court agreed the auction could proceed). But it needs a UN treaty to give it teeth. That would help in the task of tracking down and repatriating items recently stolen and smuggled as well as ensuring that world heritage items long held in distant museums remain protected and treasured.
See the above page for the full story.
- Reflections On The Cairo Conference On Restitution
Museum Security Network (Kwame Opoku) The Conference on International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, 7-8 April 2010, Cairo, Egypt, ended with demands for the return of certain cultural artefacts which had been looted...
- Egypt Forum On Looted Antiquities Calls For Unity
France24 With photos of the Nefertiti bust, Hawass in his familiar speech-with-mics mode and the Rosetta Stone. Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass on Wednesday opened an international conference on recovering ancient artefacts from abroad, saying...
- Repatriation: More Re Rosetta
Daily Times, Pakistan Egypt will host a conference in April for countries demanding the return of their antiquities, stolen but on display in museums round the world, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said. The conference will “discuss the question...
- Smuggled Saharan Artefacts Seized In Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314481.stm"French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an 'archaeological treasure',...
- Holes In Egypt's National Collection
Here we go again with another attempt by Dr. Zahi Hawass to have the Rosetta stone, the bust of an unknown Amarna queen in Berlin and other artifacts to be returned to Egypt. Greece and Italy are up to the same thing with their own desire to re acquire...