Egypt
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"Egyptian police have foiled an attempt to smuggle an ancient statue of Pharaoh Ramses II out of Egypt for sale to a foreign museum or private collector. Security sources said Thursday that thieves found the granite statue in the region of Giza near Cairo in the area of the big pyramids and did not report it to the authorities. Police were tipped off about the discovery, however, and policemen posing as art merchants convinced the thieves to sell them the statue for 4 million Egyptian pounds ($695,000). The thieves, who planned to break the statue into several pieces to facilitate smuggling it out of the country, showed the disguised policemen to the place where they had been hiding it. Ramses II, one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs, ruled ancient Egypt for 67 years between 1213 and 1279 B.C., and his statues are found in several parts of the country".
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GMA News Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says it has retrieved from the Netherlands a small pharaonic funerary statue — over 3,000 years old and known as an ushebti — dating back to the 19th Dynasty. The Council says in a statement Monday...
- Egypt To Retrieve 19th-dynasty Statue From Netherlands
Egypt State Information Service Discovered in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, Ushabti - an ancient funerary statue - could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs. Dating back to the 19th Dynasty, Ushabti was identified when a collector - who...
- Statue Of Rameses Ii Found
Wow you sure cant have enough of those! The statue is made from pink granite and is missing the nose and beard. The author said Nefertiti was wife of Rameses II this would have made Nefertiti around 200 years old, thank goodness for the picture. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/3074496/Ancient-statue-of-Ramses-II-found-near-Cairo.html...
Egypt
Attempt to smuggle pharaoh's statue foiled
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050915-06373800-bc-egypt-smuggling.xml
"Egyptian police have foiled an attempt to smuggle an ancient statue of Pharaoh Ramses II out of Egypt for sale to a foreign museum or private collector. Security sources said Thursday that thieves found the granite statue in the region of Giza near Cairo in the area of the big pyramids and did not report it to the authorities. Police were tipped off about the discovery, however, and policemen posing as art merchants convinced the thieves to sell them the statue for 4 million Egyptian pounds ($695,000). The thieves, who planned to break the statue into several pieces to facilitate smuggling it out of the country, showed the disguised policemen to the place where they had been hiding it. Ramses II, one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs, ruled ancient Egypt for 67 years between 1213 and 1279 B.C., and his statues are found in several parts of the country".
This is the complete bulletin on the Science Daily website
- Discovery Of Pharaoh's Head Could Lead Archaeologists To Ramses Ii Temple
Daily Mail Online With photographs. A huge 3,000 year-old red granite head has been unearthed in Cairo of one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs, archaeologists have revealed. Egypt's antiquities council said they believed the broken statue found at...
- Egypt Finds Granite Statue, Likely Of Ramses Ii
Reuters Africa Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a granite statue probably depicting the head of Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, the country's culture ministry said on Wednesday. Researchers discovered the statue...
- Egypt Gets 3000-year-old Statue Back From Dutch
GMA News Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says it has retrieved from the Netherlands a small pharaonic funerary statue — over 3,000 years old and known as an ushebti — dating back to the 19th Dynasty. The Council says in a statement Monday...
- Egypt To Retrieve 19th-dynasty Statue From Netherlands
Egypt State Information Service Discovered in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, Ushabti - an ancient funerary statue - could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs. Dating back to the 19th Dynasty, Ushabti was identified when a collector - who...
- Statue Of Rameses Ii Found
Wow you sure cant have enough of those! The statue is made from pink granite and is missing the nose and beard. The author said Nefertiti was wife of Rameses II this would have made Nefertiti around 200 years old, thank goodness for the picture. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/3074496/Ancient-statue-of-Ramses-II-found-near-Cairo.html...