Egypt
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- Under The Pharaohs' Spell
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- The Post-revolution State Of Egypt's Heritage
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The 25 January Revolution seems to have cast the Pharaohs' curse over the antiquities and museums sector in Egypt, which has seen more than its share of bad luck in the past nine months. The early days of the uprising...
- The Search For Gold In The Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online (Zahi Hawass) Archaeologists spend their lives excavating sites and making major discoveries, and at the end of their dig seasons they bring all of their finds to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. I, myself, used to come to Cairo all the time...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- Objects Stolen From Qantara Storage
The final report is out on the objects stolen from the Qantara magazine after the 29th of January and before the contents of the magazine were taken to the Cairo museum. The report states that some 800 objects are missing from many historical periods...
Egypt
Around 1000 items stolen during uprising
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Thieves stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archeological sites across Egypt since protests against the government broke out in January, Egypt's minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass said Sunday in a newspaper interview.
"We are investigating all the incidents to find the items. Up until now we have identified many culprits, criminals who were looking for gold or mummies and who lacked knowledge of the value of the items they stole," he told Spanish daily El Mundo.
"They were not organised, they lived near the archeological sites where the objects were kept. They would take advantage of the night to enter the archeological sites and pillage," he added.
"About 1,000 objects were stolen, none of them major items. There is an inventory of everything and it will be difficult for the items to leave the country."
- Under The Pharaohs' Spell
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) This year, 2011, was indeed different for Egypt. A few days after the revolution broke out on 25 January, eventually toppling president Hosni Mubarak and his autocratic regime, the corrupt police force faded into the background...
- The Post-revolution State Of Egypt's Heritage
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The 25 January Revolution seems to have cast the Pharaohs' curse over the antiquities and museums sector in Egypt, which has seen more than its share of bad luck in the past nine months. The early days of the uprising...
- The Search For Gold In The Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online (Zahi Hawass) Archaeologists spend their lives excavating sites and making major discoveries, and at the end of their dig seasons they bring all of their finds to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. I, myself, used to come to Cairo all the time...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- Objects Stolen From Qantara Storage
The final report is out on the objects stolen from the Qantara magazine after the 29th of January and before the contents of the magazine were taken to the Cairo museum. The report states that some 800 objects are missing from many historical periods...