Egypt
- Seventy Egyptian Artefacts Found In Illegal Possession Are Authenticated
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The archaeological committee of the central administration for confiscated antiquities, led by Youssef Khalifa, verified the authenticity of a collection of ancient Egyptian objects that were found in the possession of three...
- Egypt's Antiquities Moved For Fear Of Looting
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to protect Egypt’s antiquities, an archaeological mission led by Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of antiquities of Alexandria and Lower Egypt, transported artefacts from the Qantara East storage facility in Sinai...
- Arrests Over Missing Statues
http://tinyurl.com/bvq3n "Egyptian police arrested two men on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of three 3000-year-old Pharaonic statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo. Police captured the men, both of them employees...
- 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...
- Unearthing The Museum's Basement
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr2.htmZahi Hawass on the subject of one of the world's most sought-after basements: "Recently I have become interested in digging in a new place, a place without sand -- the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
Egypt
Arrests in 'museum curse' case
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 the museum last April to celebrate World Heritage Day, curators realised that three of the pieces had vanished. In an attempt to find the missing objects up to 40 inspectors have been exploring the museum's basement, sorting through the overwhelmingly large collection of stored artefacts, but with no luck. That was until early this week, when the Tourism and Antiquities Police (TAP) arrested two men who were trying to sell the objects to a policeman working undercover as an antiquities trader. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has called for an investigation into the theft". See the full article for more.
- Seventy Egyptian Artefacts Found In Illegal Possession Are Authenticated
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The archaeological committee of the central administration for confiscated antiquities, led by Youssef Khalifa, verified the authenticity of a collection of ancient Egyptian objects that were found in the possession of three...
- Egypt's Antiquities Moved For Fear Of Looting
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to protect Egypt’s antiquities, an archaeological mission led by Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of antiquities of Alexandria and Lower Egypt, transported artefacts from the Qantara East storage facility in Sinai...
- Arrests Over Missing Statues
http://tinyurl.com/bvq3n "Egyptian police arrested two men on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of three 3000-year-old Pharaonic statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo. Police captured the men, both of them employees...
- 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...
- Unearthing The Museum's Basement
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr2.htmZahi Hawass on the subject of one of the world's most sought-after basements: "Recently I have become interested in digging in a new place, a place without sand -- the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....