Egypt
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With two photographs.
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- Junk Or Artifacts
The news is all about some 200 artifacts being given to the Supreme Council of Antiquities by the Al-Ahly bank. The collection was left in the bank probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and is credited as belonging to foreigners,...
Egypt
Al Ahly Bank returns 200 Egyptian objects
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Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) received 200 artifacts from Al-Ahly National Bank yesterday and have stored them in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo for restoration and documentation.
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA, said that the recovered collection was stored in the treasury of the bank since the early 20th century and that it included objects from the ancient Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic eras. Among the objects are limestone statuary heads of ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman deities such as Horus, Hathor and Ptah, as well as Roman terracotta statues and twenty coins from the Islamic and Modern period. Hawass added that two archaeological and legal committees inspected the collection and confirmed the objects’ authenticity.
Chairman of the Al-Ahly Bank, Dr. Tarek Amer, stated that these objects were in the possession of foreigners who lived in Egypt during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The foreigners were obviously antiquities collectors and had stored their collection inside two treasuries of the bank. Since the early 20th century nobody had asked about the objects and they remained under the banks care until the executive board of the bank decided to offer the pieces to the SCA.
- Australia Returns 122 Items To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) After a decade of lying hidden in storehouses at auction halls in Melbourne, Australia, a collection of 122 ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts is to return to Egypt on 5 November. An archaeological mission led by...
- More Re Items Missing From Qantara East
Ahram Online With photo. Following a detailed archaeological inventory on the collection of artefacts stored in the Qantara-East warehouse, some 800 objects from the ancient Egyptian, Graeco and Islamic eras were found missing. The objects derived from...
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drhawass.com Press release. With photograph of 2 fragments. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced today that six missing pieces from the colossal double statue of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, have been discovered...
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/764/eg4.htm"It seemed that the Egyptian Museum's basement had been afflicted with the Pharaohs' curse. Three weeks ago, when the Giza archaeological inspectors asked for the return of 14 objects placed on loan with...
- Junk Or Artifacts
The news is all about some 200 artifacts being given to the Supreme Council of Antiquities by the Al-Ahly bank. The collection was left in the bank probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and is credited as belonging to foreigners,...