Egypt
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- Statue Of Egyptian King Amenhotep Iii Found
Egypt State Information Service A huge statue of King Amenhotep III has been discovered in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. The 13-meter-high quartzite statue was unearthed during excavations carried out by the mission of the Supreme Council for Antiquities...
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
Ahram Online The Antikhenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland will return to Egypt a limestone relief depicting a hunting scene from the daily life of its owner. The relief is dated to the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (c. 2649-2134 BC) and it is 51cm high...
- More Than A Blink
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph. At Luxor Temple his innovations include building the colonnaded court, a masterpiece of balance for which credit should be given to Amenhotep's architect. In 1970, during routine excavations in the...
- Update: St Louis Mask
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=110108 (in Arabic)Thanks very much indeed to professional Arabic-English translator Eric Mueller for this email, and the translation of the above article on the Saudi-based Islammemo website. Eric, I am...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...
Egypt
Amenhotep III lost eye
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13945243.htm
At the bottom of one of numerous short pieces about Egypt's request for the return of the St Louis mask, was this short paragraph on the Kansas City Star website, from the Associated Press: "The Supreme Council of Antiquities said it also asked Basel Museum in Switzerland to return the left eye of a statue of king Amenhotep III, which it said was stolen from a temple in Luxor several years ago."
- Statue Of Egyptian King Amenhotep Iii Found
Egypt State Information Service A huge statue of King Amenhotep III has been discovered in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. The 13-meter-high quartzite statue was unearthed during excavations carried out by the mission of the Supreme Council for Antiquities...
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
Ahram Online The Antikhenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland will return to Egypt a limestone relief depicting a hunting scene from the daily life of its owner. The relief is dated to the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (c. 2649-2134 BC) and it is 51cm high...
- More Than A Blink
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph. At Luxor Temple his innovations include building the colonnaded court, a masterpiece of balance for which credit should be given to Amenhotep's architect. In 1970, during routine excavations in the...
- Update: St Louis Mask
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=110108 (in Arabic)Thanks very much indeed to professional Arabic-English translator Eric Mueller for this email, and the translation of the above article on the Saudi-based Islammemo website. Eric, I am...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...