Egypt
Monsters and Critics
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- New York Dealer Pleads Guilty To Smuggling
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- Hawass Returns Stolen Antiquity To Iraq
Egypt Daily Star News Supreme Council of Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawas announced that he will return a stolen statue of a Mesopotamian woman to her home country in Iraq at a press conference in the Egyptian Museum on Sunday. “We sent many letters to...
- Restored Artifacts To Be Put In Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has decided to put recently restored stolen antiquities from the United States at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr Zahi Hawwas said that...
- A Slap On The Wrist
Last years discovery of six objects of ancient origin believed smuggled out of Egypt has met with an anti-climatic ending. The pieces were discovered when a Briton, Neil Kingsbury took the pieces to Christie's auction house to sell them giving an...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...
Egypt
Alleged Egyptian Antiquities Smuggler Apprehended
Monsters and Critics
A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday.
'Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling more than 1,000 antiquities and helping Egyptian dealer Tareq al-Sweissi smuggle Egyptian pieces that belonged to different dynasties,' said SCA chief Zahi Hawas.
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In 2003 Seweissi was arrested and convicted. Although Abu Taam was not apprehended at the time, in 2004 an Egyptian court convicted him in absentia, sentencing him to 15 years in prison and fining him EG£50,000 ($9,062).
The culture ministry did not offer details on the types of artifacts involved in the smuggling operation, but Zahi Hawass, the country’s chief archaeologist, said that Abu Taam’s arrest marked a “concrete step toward stopping the trade in illegal antiquities around the world.”
- New York Dealer Pleads Guilty To Smuggling
ArtInfo (Benjamin Sutton) With a slideshow of some of the arteacts. How did a Brooklyn man smuggle enough Egyptian artifacts into the U.S. to open a small museum? Mostly by lying on customs forms. On Wednesday the New York antiques dealer Mousa Khouli...
- Hawass Returns Stolen Antiquity To Iraq
Egypt Daily Star News Supreme Council of Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawas announced that he will return a stolen statue of a Mesopotamian woman to her home country in Iraq at a press conference in the Egyptian Museum on Sunday. “We sent many letters to...
- Restored Artifacts To Be Put In Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has decided to put recently restored stolen antiquities from the United States at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr Zahi Hawwas said that...
- A Slap On The Wrist
Last years discovery of six objects of ancient origin believed smuggled out of Egypt has met with an anti-climatic ending. The pieces were discovered when a Briton, Neil Kingsbury took the pieces to Christie's auction house to sell them giving an...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...